Set ruby.rails filetype for ruby files

[graudeejs]

It would be great if vim-rails would set "ruby.rails" as filetype for ruby files.
Other plugins (such as UltiSnips for example) would benefit form this.
In case of UltiSnips it could load ruby and rails snippets without need of ruby snippets extending rails snippets (which is illogical, because rails should extend ruby). While this is just annoyance, because of this I have all my rails snippets loaded for any ruby file I edit.

I checked the source, but I doubt I'll be able to fix this any time soon, as I'm very new (almost virgin) to VimL and vim-rails is massive.

Also this could allow syntax file to be created and used

[tpope]

I've thought about this before. "Rails" is kind of a hand-wavey thing to promote to a file type. Why are models, views, controllers, tests, and rake tasks all in the same hodgepodge grouping? If you're worried about Rails snippets in regular Ruby files, are you also worried about controller snippets in model files? Do we also set javascript.rails? eruby.html.rails? If the user has set up a ruby.rspec filetype, do we clobber it with ruby.rails? Maybe munge it to ruby.rspec.rails?

Rails.vim provides custom autocommands that you can hook into to be as broad or as granular as you want. But last time I looked at the current crop of snippet plugins (this was years ago, mind you), they all had the exact same filetype rigidity you were expected to work within. Presumably because that's what TextMate forced you to do.

[graudeejs]

You're right, the issue is with snippet plugins