Vim Ruby F5 to Run

Here’s how I got F5 to run the Ruby file in Vim…

In .vimrc:

au FileType ruby source ~/.vim/nitin/ruby.vim
# The above needs the "filetype plugin on" included in the .vimrc

In .vim/nitin/ruby.vim:

map <F5> :w<CR>:!ruby %<CR>

PS: Comments in the .vim files begin with the double-quote character

PPS: Apparently, we can also do an “au BufRead *.rb ….” instead of using the file type plugin