How To Install vim-rails on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-rails on Debian 11. vim-rails is vim development tools for Rails development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-rails on Debian 11.

What is vim-rails

vim-rails is:

vim-rails provides several tools for Rails development with vim:

  • only affects buffers of files inside Rails projects.
  • fills key variables like ‘makeprg’, ‘path’ with appropriate values for your application.
  • enhanced syntax highlighting for files in Rails projects.
  • interface to Rails’ scripts/*
  • automated partial extraction
  • integration with project and dbext vim addons, present in the vim-scripts package.

There are three methods to install vim-rails on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install vim-rails Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install vim-rails using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install vim-rails

Install vim-rails Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vim-rails using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vim-rails

Install vim-rails Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install vim-rails using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vim-rails

How To Uninstall vim-rails on Debian 11

To uninstall only the vim-rails package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vim-rails

Uninstall vim-rails And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vim-rails and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-rails

Remove vim-rails Configurations and Data

To remove vim-rails configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vim-rails

Remove vim-rails configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove vim-rails configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-rails

Dependencies

vim-rails have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-rails package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.