til/vim/read-in-the-contents-of-a-rails-file.md

# Read In The Contents Of A Rails File

The [`rails.vim` plugin](https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails) allows you to
quickly navigate to specific types of files with the `E` prefix. For
instance, `:Emodel` will scope you to just the models directory.

You can use this same approach with the `D` prefix. Instead of navigating to
specified file though, this will read in the contents of that file into the
current buffer.

Do you need to copy and tweak the contents of a similar view? Open up your
new view file (e.g. `:Eview posts/edit.html.erb`) and then enter `:Dview
posts/new` to quickly copy in its contents.

h/t Josh Davey