Faster than your IDE: vim for rubyists - Ben Orenstein

Many new rubyists are surprised to hear that vim is the most widely-used editor in our community. However, those with some vim experience know exactly why: there's simply no faster way to edit code. In this talk, beginning vimmers will learn how (and why) to leave their IDEs behind, and advanced vim-users will discover new tricks to increase their speed even further. This talk will be highly-interactive, with lots of live vimming and exactly zero slides. After this talk, expect to be writing code faster than when you walked in. Topics to be covered include: * the fundamentals of efficient editing * navigating Rails projects at top-speed * the power of tags * running ruby from inside vim * five incredibly-useful plugins * macros, registers, marks, and more