= CodeRay
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== About
CodeRay is a Ruby library for syntax highlighting.
Syntax highlighting means: 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*...
* makes code easier to read and maintain
* lets you detect syntax errors faster
* helps you to understand the syntax of a language
* looks nice
* is what everybody should have on their website
* solves all your problems and makes the girls run after you
Version: 0.7.4 (2006.october.20)
Author:: murphy (Kornelius Kalnbach)
Contact:: murphy rubychan de
Website:: coderay.rubychan.de[http://coderay.rubychan.de]
License:: GNU LGPL; see LICENSE file in the main directory.
Subversion:: $Id: README 219 2006-10-20 15:52:25Z murphy $
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== Installation
You need RubyGems[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126].
% gem install coderay
Since CodeRay is still in beta stage, nightly buildy may be useful:
% gem install coderay -rs rd.cYcnus.de/coderay
=== Dependencies
CodeRay needs Ruby 1.8 and the
strscan[http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/strscan/rdoc/index.htm]
library (part of the standard library.) It should also run with Ruby 1.9 and
yarv.
== Example Usage
(Forgive me, but this is not highlighted.)
require 'coderay'
tokens = CodeRay.scan "puts 'Hello, world!'", :ruby
page = tokens.html :line_numbers => :inline, :wrap => :page
puts page
== Documentation
See CodeRay.
Please report errors in this documentation to <coderay cycnus de>.
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== Credits
=== Special Thanks to
* 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.
=== Thanks to
* Caleb Clausen for writing RubyLexer (see
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylexer) and lots of very interesting mail
traffic
* birkenfeld (Georg Brandl) and mitsuhiku (Arnim Ronacher) for PyKleur. You
guys rock!
* Jamis Buck for writing Syntax (see http://rubyforge.org/projects/syntax)
I got some useful ideas from it.
* 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.
* everyone who used CodeBB on http://www.rubyforen.de and
http://www.infhu.de/mx
* iGEL, magichisoka, manveru, WoN<6F>Do and everyone I forgot from rubyforen.de
* Daniel and Dethix from ruby-mine.de
* Dookie (who is no longer with us...) and Leonidas from
http://www.python-forum.de
* Andreas Schwarz for finding out that CaseIgnoringWordList was not case
ignoring! Such things really make you write tests.
* matz and all Ruby gods and gurus
* 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?
=== Created using
* Ruby[http://ruby-lang.org/]
* Chihiro (my Sony VAIO laptop), Henrietta (my new MacBook) and
Seras (my Athlon 2200+ tower)
* VIM[http://vim.org] and TextMate[http://macromates.com]
* RDE[http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html]
* Microsoft Windows (yes, I confess!) and MacOS X
* Firefox[http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/] and
Thunderbird[http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/]
* Rake[http://rake.rubyforge.org/]
* RubyGems[http://docs.rubygems.org/]
* {Subversion/TortoiseSVN}[http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/] using Apache via
XAMPP[http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]
* RDoc (though I'm quite unsatisfied with it)
* GNUWin32, MinGW and some other tools to make the shell under windows a bit
more useful
* Term::ANSIColor[http://term-ansicolor.rubyforge.org/]
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* As you can see, CodeRay was created under heavy use of *free* software.
* So CodeRay is also *free*.
* If you use CodeRay to create software, think about making this software
*free*, too.
* Thanks :)
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