# Vim error-format

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-error-format/100335>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 2, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-error-format/100335 "2006-02-02T16:12:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/regularfry)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-error-format/100335/1 "2006-02-02T16:12:23Z")

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Hi all,

Before I go off and bodge one together, has anyone else come up with a  
decent error-format for vim to :make Ruby unit-tests with?

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**Author:** ![regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/regularfry)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-error-format/100335/2 "2006-02-02T16:39:38Z")

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Alex Y. wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Before I go off and bodge one together, has anyone else come up with a  
> decent error-format for vim to :make Ruby unit-tests with?

D’oh! Scratch that… Google does know everything after all 🙂

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**Author:** ![regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/regularfry)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-error-format/100335/3 "2006-02-03T21:31:22Z")

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> D’oh! Scratch that… Google does know everything after all

How about clueing us in on what you found?

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**Author:** ![regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/regularfry)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-error-format/100335/4 "2006-02-03T21:55:56Z")

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Please do Mr. Young !

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**Author:** ![regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@regularfry](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/regularfry)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 11:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-error-format/100335/5 "2006-02-06T11:14:38Z")

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Dylan S. wrote:

> Please do Mr. Young !
> 
> On 2/2/06, _Alex S._ \<removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)\> wrote:
> 
> ```
> > D'oh! Scratch that... Google does know everything after all
> >
> 
> How about clueing us in on what you found?
> 
> ```

It turns out that the one I found was already being distributed as part  
of the vim-ruby package. If you’ve got it installed, do:

:compiler rubyunit

and :make should do what you expect.