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I have a bunch of includes at the top of my file.

Then I use methods from the helpers throughout my file.

How can I have it so that when my cursor is on a method name my editor can (by some keystrokes) opens up that file and go to the method definition?

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    Check out ctags.sourceforge.net and :h tags.
    – Tumbler41
    May 6, 2016 at 22:53
  • You can't. Not 100% reliably anyway. Ruby is very dynamic, and Rails make quite a lot of use of that e.g. by defining methods with CLASS_EVAL and such, rather than just def foo... Jul 7, 2016 at 12:19
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    ctags has been forked. The new maintained project is universal ctags. For some languages it really makes the difference. Dec 4, 2016 at 13:13

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Use either [d or [i.

:help include-search is a built-in but sadly overlooked feature.

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Have you tried using gf?

You may want to have a look at installing rails-vim if you haven't already. http://vimawesome.com/plugin/rails-vim

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