My dot files based off of hashrockets and what I learned from peepcode's two "smashing into vim" video tutorials Note... (taken from http://gist.github.com/398996) If you are using rvm for to manage your rubies (as you should) and you want ruby interopt in macvim, you will need to compile macvim with the following options: ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-rubyinterp --with-macsdk=10.6 --with-macarchs=x86_64 --with-ruby-command=ruby this will use whatever rvm ruby is your --default