Installing vim with ruby support (+ruby)

Question

I\'m trying to get command-t installed for vim but my current version of vim doesn\'t have the (+ruby) flag. The command \"which ruby\" shows that ruby is installed.

Answer 1

when you run ./configure you need to add the folowing --enable-rubyinterp

./configure --enable-rubyinterp

Answer 2

Flag +ruby means that vim is compiled with ruby support and linked against ruby interpreter library. You cannot get this flag without recompiling vim or installing another version which is compiled with this flag.

Answer 3

If you are using MacPorts in OSX, you may try

sudo port install vim +ruby

To specify a different ruby version, you may try

sudo port install vim +ruby18

or

sudo port install vim +ruby19

Answer 4

If there isn't a Ruby enabled Vim available for your operating system, you'll have to recompile. This is very easy and there are some instructions on the Vim website I believe. If you're on Linux, you use configure to choose what you want. Have a look at the output of:

./configure --help

in the Vim source directory. Read it carefully, there are a lot of options in there. The main one you want is --enable-rubyinterp, but you may also want to add --with-features=HUGE among others. As I said, read the help provided.

Answer 5

Pulling the vim source using Mercurial and changing into the directory will give you the ability to configure your vim install before you compile it.

hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
cd vim
./configure --enable-rubyinterp

The --enable-xxinterp option can be used for Python, Perl, or any other language that Vim will support. Just type it in where the xx is and it will work.

Running the help option with the configure command will allow you to see all of the configuration options.

./configure --help

Answer 6

Under Windows you can install Vim from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Vim/

Version 7.3.3 seems to be compiled with Ruby support (see release notes file). The newest 7.3.x currently is not.