rails.vim

[sj26]

I miss rails.vim so much. Like a bunch of folks, I've come to Zed from Vim. I love the AI features. Vim can't keep up here (imho). But while a coding model is better in Zed, I am worse. Mostly navigating around the codebase.

Today, for example, I just want to jump into this form partial:

In vim, with rails.vim, I would gf and be in the file.

Folks say "use ⌘P":

That's not a solution.

Another example - in a model, I want to switch to the spec file:

In vim: :A.

In Zed, I have to do this — instead of "go to spec" my brain has to think "what sort of file is this, what's it called, what would the spec be called, how am I going to trick the fuzzy finder into finding the right thing .. okay great" — I feel like a coding model burning my context window:

It's so much slower. I feel like I'm on crutches navigating around this codebase.

How do I make this fast in Zed?

I'm using Shopify's ruby-lsp and ruby-lsp-rails which are excellent. I think they might have functions to speed this up. But it doesn't seem to match Zed's model of the world.

Like none of these are what I want:

If Zed had extensions that let me do little scripting things and keybindings, including extending vim mode and a proper vim console, I would just do that.

Tasks + keybindings feel like a workaround, not a solution. Like I've got this "toggle spec" task:

It runs a little script that switches files. I've bound it to a shortcut like ⌘⌥T .. or something. I keep forgetting the shortcut.

I tried binding it like this, to use my muscle memory:

  {
    "context": "Editor && VimControl && vim_mode == normal && !menu",
    "bindings": {
      ": A": ["task::Spawn", { "task_name": "toggle spec" }]
    }
  }

but that makes popping up Zed's menu slow. And it's going to get real tedious to do all the combinations rails.vim can do. And in vim I can combine them with things like splits or tabs or new windows in one command.

Like, I kinda want to be able to at least add items into the command palette or something:

How far away are fully fledged Zed extensions? Is that what I'm waiting for? The zed-rails extension? Or is there a gap here I can already fill with LSPs? Or could I contribute some enhancements for LSPs to enable this sort of navigation?

I just love Zed. I love how fast it is. I love the CRDT fundamentals. I love the model integrations. But I need to get off the crutches and I can't figure out out, and would just love some advice 🙏

[sj26]

Maybe tasks are the answer? Like I could create a zed-rails extension, implement native tasks like "go to alternate" and "go to related" which do the rails heuristics etc, but inside a rust module so it's all hot and fast? With a suggested keymap. I'm happy to try it.

Still very interested in what Zed-natives suggest here 🙏