Vim statusline filename without [Rails] appended to it

Question

I'm creating a custom statusline in vim with the following so far:

set statusline=%t
set laststatus=2

It's VERY simple but the problem is the filename shows up like so:

my_file.rb[Rails]

Is there a way to get it to show without "[Rails]"? I want just this

my_file.rb

Answer 1

The [Rails] bit is probably coming from the vim-rails plugin. The plugin will set a modified, local value for statusline when editing a Rails file (:set statusline? after seeing [Rails] in your status line to see that it has added %{rails#statusline()} to the end of the statusline value you set in your .vimrc). You can disable its statusline modifications by putting something like the following in your .vimrc:

let g:rails_statusline = 0

Incidentally, the [Rails] bit does not represent the value of the filetype option (which you can get with the %y statusline item, if you want it). It is mostly just a static string (there is some code to make it look like [Rails-controller] (also -model, -helper, etc.), but it looks like you would have to manually enable it).

Answer 2

Try:

set statusline=%{fnamemodify(bufname('%'),':t')}

Answer 3

This does the trick

set statusline=%{expand(\"\%\%\")}