What's the most elegant way of commenting / uncommenting blocks of ruby code in Vim?

Question

In VIM, at the moment when I need to comment out a section of Ruby code:

• I navigate to the first column in the row I want to comment out
• I press CTRL-v t

Answer 1

I use these plugins:

1. vim-commentary by Tim Pope, which defines a comment operator gc
2. vim-textobj-rubyblock, which defines ir (inside Ruby block) and ar (around Ruby block) for Ruby do ... blocks.
3. vim-ruby which defines im/am for inside/around Ruby method, and iM/aM for inside/around Ruby class.

Using this combination, I can easily comment/uncomment Ruby-specific code in Normal mode, e.g.:

1. gcir / gcar comment inside/around Ruby do/end block.
2. gcim / gcam comment inside/around Ruby method.
3. gciM / gcaM comment inside/around Ruby class.
4. Plus normal Commentary maps like gcc to comment a line, or 5gcc to comment 5 lines.

All in all it's very Vim-like and natural.

Hope that helps.