Remote editing of F5 BigIP iRules with vim

Use Vundle or Pathogen to load https://github.com/wfaulk/iRuler.vim

• For Vundle, add Plugin 'wfaulk/iRuler.vim' to the appropriate location in your .vimrc.

• For Pathogen:

    cd ~/.vim/bundle/<br />
    git clone https://github.com/wfaulk/iRuler.vim
  

Once installed, inside vim, run :F5Connect to connect to your BigIP, then run :F5GetRules to get a list of rules. (They will be folded; use zo to open folds.) Move your cursor to the iRule you want to edit and run :F5OpenRule. Edit the rule as desired, then run :F5PubRule to upload your changes.

iRuler does not currently flush your changes to the BigIP's on-disk config. This will change in the future, but make sure you do it yourself by hand for now. The easiest way is probably to click any "Update" button in the BigIP's web interface.

iRuler requires a python-enabled vim.

iRuler currently includes the python modules pycontrol and suds. This may change to a prerequisite, but I personally had trouble with keeping them elsewhere non-global and having MacVim find them.

The majority of the functional code is taken directly from vim-iruler but updated to work better as a Pathogen/Vundle plugin.