Question

Whenever I am trying to open a file in my Rails project using macVim. I am getting an error

Taglist: Failed to generate tags for .......

But it works perfectly in terminal vim. Why is this happening? I am a beginner and just installed everything using this dotvim repo.

I installed ctags using these commands that I got from this Gist:

$ ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log *
ctags: illegal option -- R
usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file ...

#you need to get new ctags, i recommend homebrew but anything will work
$ brew install ctags

#alias ctags if you used homebrew
$ alias ctags="`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags"

#try again!
ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log *

which ctags on terminal returning, same if I do from vim or gvim using ! (bang):

 /usr/bin/ctags

Answer 1

You need to change the PATH order to make /usr/local/bin/ctags ahead of of /usr/bin/ctags. The way I prefer to achieve this is by add /usr/local/bin to the beginning of /etc/paths:

# for homebrew
/usr/local/bin

# original order
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
#/usr/local/bin