Adding folder of snippets to snipmate

Question

snipmate comes with a ton of snippet files. This covers most of the bases. However I would like to add some snippet collections created by other users. When I download these the snippets are broken down into and placed in folders instead. I tried adding one of these folders to the location of the other snippet files (snipmate/snippets/) but it doesn't appear that VIM detected them.

I don't see much documentation on adding additional snippets so I must have overlooked something.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Given that you are probably looking for rails snippets, I'd suggest you the ones that Mike Farmer wrote. You can find them here .

You can install them easily by doing:

git clone https://github.com/scrooloose/snipmate-snippets.git

rake deploy_local

As you can see he wrote a rake task for it and it worked very well for me!