Related File in Rails.vim

Rails.vim is a staple of our Hashrocket workstations. It continues to surprise me.

Today I discovered the :R (related) command, which is a counterpart to the :A (alternate) command. :R looks for the file related to your current buffer.

This command is sophisticated. Assuming you're following Rails conventions for file organization, :R over most templates will open the associated controller, with your cursor on the line where the action that corresponds with the view name (show for a template called show.html.erb) is defined. The same thing works in reverse; :R over the show method leads you back to show.html.erb.