If you’re a Windows user new to this article, I recommend you start reading my original The Best Environment for Rails on Windows article from a few months ago, so you know what I am talking about.

Assuming you already have the Exuberant CTags and msysGit installed as described in my original article, then, once you get to the “Configuring gVim for Rails” section, you can avoid all those steps and just do this (on Windows):

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cd %HOME% git clone git://github.com/akitaonrails/vimfiles.git cd vimfiles git submodule init git submodule update copy vimrc ..\_vimrc