# Vim/Ruby Configuration Files, 2007.03.02

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-ruby-configuration-files-2007-03-02/87519>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 3, 2007, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-ruby-configuration-files-2007-03-02/87519 "2007-03-03T09:51:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-ruby-configuration-files-2007-03-02/87519/1 "2007-03-03T09:51:23Z")

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G’day folks,

A new release of Vim/Ruby has just been uploaded to RubyForge.

Tim Pope has taken over maintenance of the eRuby indent file and added  
support for indenting the Ruby code in these files (in addition to the  
existing markup indenting).

The omni completion script now loads RubyGems and defaults to syntax  
highlighting based completion if Vim was not compiled with the Ruby  
interface. It also includes improved Rails support.

The Ruby ftplugin has been altered to set ‘keywordprg’ to call ri and  
includes a function to return the output of ri to ‘ballooneval’. This  
allows Gvim users to view the ri output, of the word under the mouse  
pointer, as a tooltip.

Some general refinements have been made to the Ruby syntax highlighting  
groups and string interpolation regions are now highlighted with the top  
level syntax highlighting.

See the NEWS and ChangeLog files for more details.

Regards,  
Doug (for the Vim-Ruby Team)

[http://vim-ruby.rubyforge.org/](http://vim-ruby.rubyforge.org/)  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/vim-ruby/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/vim-ruby/)

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-ruby-configuration-files-2007-03-02/87519/2 "2007-03-03T19:14:35Z")

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On 3/3/07, Doug K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> G’day folks,
> 
> A new release of Vim/Ruby has just been uploaded to RubyForge.

The gem dies when I try installing it:

dabba ~ # gem install vim-ruby  
Attempting local installation of ‘vim-ruby’  
Local gem file not found: vim-ruby\*.gem  
Attempting remote installation of ‘vim-ruby’  
ERROR: While executing gem … (ArgumentError)  
string contains null byte

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vim-ruby-configuration-files-2007-03-02/87519/3 "2007-03-03T20:44:42Z")

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On 3/3/07, Martin DeMello [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> On 3/3/07, Doug K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > G’day folks,
> > 
> > A new release of Vim/Ruby has just been uploaded to RubyForge.
> 
> The gem dies when I try installing it:

Was a problem with my rubygems - sorry for the noise

martin