title: Thinking of moving from TextMate to vim for Rails dev. What do I need?
body: <p>I do Ruby on Rails development pretty much exclusively. I currently develop in OS X using TextMate. I have a virtual machine running to emulate as closely as possible the environment my app will be deployed into, and I mount the code on a Samba share into OS X from the VM guest. From there I open with TextMate and code away.</p>
  
  <p>I'm beginning to think that with the proper plugins and time spent learning, I could be much more productive in vim directly on the VM. Right now my TextMate is basically stock, though I do find the ProjectPlus plugin indispensable. What I'm looking for are some suggestions of vim resources and plugins (if that's the right terminology) to closely emulate the features I am unwilling to give up in TextMate. Or at least, compelling reasons why I should be willing to give them up. Here's a short list:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Ability to have a (preferably) collapsible project tree visible either at all times or easily toggle-able.</li>
  <li>Ability to see SCM status at a glance, either within this project tree (preferable) or otherwise. (I use git almost exclusively if this makes any difference.)
  
  <ul>
  <li>Being able to view a side-by-side diff from within vim would be great too</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Ability to search through the entire project at will (I suppose <code>:stop; grep -nr; fg;</code> would accomplish this, unless there's a better way to do it.)</li>
  <li>Code completion, if possible</li>
  </ul>