Tired of blue’n’gray? Try the original version of this documentation on coderay.rubychan.de :-)
CodeRay is a Ruby library for syntax highlighting.
You put your code in, and you get it back colored; Keywords, strings, floats, comments - all in different colors. And with line numbers.
Syntax Highlighting…
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makes code easier to read and maintain
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lets you detect syntax errors faster
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helps you to understand the syntax of a language
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looks nice
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is what everybody wants to have on their website
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solves all your problems and makes the girls run after you
% gem install coderay
CodeRay needs Ruby 1.8.7+ or 1.9.2+. It also runs on Rubinius and JRuby.
require 'coderay' html = CodeRay.scan("puts 'Hello, world!'", :ruby).div(:line_numbers => :table)
See CodeRay.
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licenser (Heinz N. Gies) for ending my QBasic career, inventing the Coder project and the input/output plugin system. CodeRay would not exist without him.
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bovi (Daniel Bovensiepen) for helping me out on various occasions.
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Caleb Clausen for writing RubyLexer (see rubyforge.org/projects/rubylexer) and lots of very interesting mail traffic
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birkenfeld (Georg Brandl) and mitsuhiku (Arnim Ronacher) for PyKleur, now pygments. You guys rock!
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Jamis Buck for writing Syntax (see rubyforge.org/projects/syntax) I got some useful ideas from it.
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Doug Kearns and everyone else who worked on ruby.vim - it not only helped me coding CodeRay, but also gave me a wonderful target to reach for the Ruby scanner.
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everyone who uses CodeBB on www.rubyforen.de and www.python-forum.de
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iGEL, magichisoka, manveru, WoNáDo and everyone I forgot from rubyforen.de
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Dethix from ruby-mine.de
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zickzackw
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Dookie (who is no longer with us…) and Leonidas from www.python-forum.de
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Andreas Schwarz for finding out that CaseIgnoringWordList was not case ignoring! Such things really make you write tests.
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closure for the first version of the Scheme scanner.
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Stefan Walk for the first version of the JavaScript and PHP scanners.
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Josh Goebel for another version of the JavaScript scanner, a SQL and a Diff scanner.
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Jonathan Younger for pointing out the licence confusion caused by wrong LICENSE file.
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Jeremy Hinegardner for finding the shebang-on-empty-file bug in FileType.
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Charles Oliver Nutter and Yehuda Katz for helping me benchmark CodeRay on JRuby.
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Andreas Neuhaus for pointing out a markup bug in coderay/for_redcloth.
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0xf30fc7 for the FileType patch concerning Delphi file extensions.
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The folks at redmine.org - thank you for using and fixing CodeRay!
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Keith Pitt for his SQL scanners
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Rob Aldred for the terminal encoder
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Trans for pointing out $DEBUG dependencies
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Flameeyes for finding that Term::ANSIColor was obsolete
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matz and all Ruby gods and gurus
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The inventors of: the computer, the internet, the true color display, HTML & CSS, VIM, Ruby, pizza, microwaves, guitars, scouting, programming, anime, manga, coke and green ice tea.
Where would we be without all those people?
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Chihiro (my Sony VAIO laptop); Henrietta (my old MacBook); Triella, born Rico (my new MacBook); as well as Seras and Hikari (my PCs)
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Firefox, Firebug, Safari, and Thunderbird
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TortoiseSVN using Apache via XAMPP
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RDoc (though I’m quite unsatisfied with it)
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Microsoft Windows (yes, I confess!) and MacOS X
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GNUWin32, MinGW and some other tools to make the shell under windows a bit less useless
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PLEAC code examples
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Github
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Travis CI (travis-ci.org/rubychan/github)
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As you can see, CodeRay was created under heavy use of free software.
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So CodeRay is also free.
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If you use CodeRay to create software, think about making this software free, too.
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Thanks :)