vim-rails: No such file or directory when doing Rserver

Question

Can't find anything about this in Google. Trying to get most out of vim-rails .

https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails

It has many interesting commands, like :Rserver , :Rgenerate , :Rdestroy , but they do not work on my machine. All they give same error:

No such file or directory

I would imagine it has something to do with paths, and RVM loading, but not sure what exactly. Running on latest Lubuntu if that matters. Sometimes need to do /bin/bash --login to run rake.

-- Found somewhere that in ~/.profile I should put this:

# PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin" # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"  # This loads RVM

Still same error.

-- Yes, vim-rails - is a plugin for vim that I'm trying to use.

-- Tried to run !/bin/bash --login from VIM - but it closes VIm.

Answer 1

Have you try to execute these commands in the normal way? like rails server , rails generate ..

From your description, mostly because vim-rails can't find ruby or rails command to execute.

You should check the $PATH variable to see whether it has ruby or rails load path in it.

Answer 2

Have you tried to open vim in your working directory?

For example, if your app is in ~/workspace/my_project/ , then you should open vim in that directory:

cd ~/workspace/my_project
vim

Then the vim-rails should work as expected.