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Re:Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome by overshard on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:32PM (#6296759)
This is cool but it seems silly to have the default install method to be using "rake", I love vim but keep Ruby off most of my systems, what happened to good ol' fashion shell scripts.
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Re:Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome by slig on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:41PM (#6296827)
Why is it silly? It's specific for OS X and OS X users already have ruby installed.
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Re:Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome by akkartik on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:54PM (#6296923)
Because everybody has at some point tried to run rake on a new project and found some version incompatibility along the depth of the abyss^Wstack.
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Re:Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome by steveklabnik on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:09PM (#6297018)
Hasn't bundler solved that particular problem for a few years?
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Re:Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome by akkartik on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:41PM (#6297237)
Bundler isn't installed by default.

In practice I've found bundler to be just another layer that can have the wrong version: http://xkcd.com/927. But I have no interest in bringing up old painful episodes, I'm done with the ruby eco-system. So I'll just restrict my response to the previous paragraph.

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Re:Square open-sources its Vim repo, Maximum Awesome by alanctkc on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:36PM (#6297193)
This configuration also includes the Command-T plugin, which has a Ruby dependency. For those looking for a Command-T alternative without Ruby, CtrlP is a great choice.
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