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https://github.com/rouge-ruby/rouge

A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments
https://github.com/rouge-ruby/rouge

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A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments

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Rouge

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Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight
over 200 different languages, and output HTML
or ANSI 256-color text. Its HTML output is compatible with
stylesheets designed for Pygments.

Installation

In your Gemfile, add:

gem 'rouge'

or

gem install rouge

Usage

Rouge's most common uses are as a Ruby library, as part of Jekyll and as a
command line tool.

Library

Here's a quick example of using Rouge as you would any other regular Ruby
library:

require 'rouge'

# make some nice lexed html
source = File.read('/etc/bashrc')
formatter = Rouge::Formatters::HTML.new
lexer = Rouge::Lexers::Shell.new
formatter.format(lexer.lex(source))

# Get some CSS
Rouge::Themes::Base16.mode(:light).render(scope: '.highlight')
# Or use Theme#find with string input
Rouge::Theme.find('base16.light').render(scope: '.highlight')

Jekyll

Rouge is Jekyll's default syntax highlighter. Out of the box, Rouge will be
used to highlight text wrapped in the {% highlight %} template tags. The
{% highlight %} tag provides minimal options: you can specify the language to
use and whether to enable line numbers or not. More information is available in
the Jekyll docs.

Command Line

Rouge ships with a rougify command which allows you to easily highlight files
in your terminal:

$ rougify foo.rb
$ rougify foo.rb -t monokai.sublime
$ rougify style monokai.sublime > syntax.css

Configuration

Formatters

Rouge comes with a number of formatters built-in but as of Rouge 2.0, you are
encouraged to write your own formatter if you need something custom.

The built-in formatters are:

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTML.new will render your code with standard class names
    for tokens, with no div-wrapping or other bells or whistles.

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTMLInline.new(theme) will render your code with no class
    names, but instead inline the styling options into the style= attribute.
    This is good for emails and other systems where CSS support is minimal.

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTMLLinewise.new(formatter, class: 'line-%i') will split
    your code into lines, each contained in its own div. The class option will
    be used to add a class name to the div, given the line number.

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTMLLineHighlighter.new(formatter, highlight_lines: [3, 5])
    will split your code into lines and wrap the lines specified by the
    highlight_lines option in a span with a class name specified by the
    highlight_line_class option (default: hll).

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTMLLineTable.new(formatter, opts={}) will output an HTML
    table containing numbered lines, each contained in its own table-row. Options
    are:

    • start_line: 1 - the number of the first row
    • line_id: 'line-%i' - a sprintf template for id attribute with
      current line number
    • line_class: 'lineno' - a CSS class for each table-row
    • table_class: 'rouge-line-table' - a CSS class for the table
    • gutter_class: 'rouge-gutter' - a CSS class for the line-number cell
    • code_class: 'rouge-code' - a CSS class for the code cell

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTMLPygments.new(formatter, css_class='codehilite') wraps
    the given formatter with div wrappers generally expected by stylesheets
    designed for Pygments.

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTMLTable.new(formatter, opts={}) will output an HTML
    table containing numbered lines similar to Rouge::Formatters::HTMLLineTable,
    except that the table from this formatter has just a single table-row.
    Therefore, while the table is more DOM-friendly for JavaScript scripting, long
    code lines will mess with the column alignment. Options are:

    • start_line: 1 - the number of the first line
    • line_format: '%i' - a sprintf template for the line number itself
    • table_class: 'rouge-table' - a CSS class for the table
    • gutter_class: 'rouge-gutter' - a CSS class for the gutter
    • code_class: 'rouge-code' - a CSS class for the code column

  • Rouge::Formatters::HTMLLegacy.new(opts={}) is a backwards-compatibility
    class intended for users of Rouge 1.x, with options that were supported then.
    Options are:

    • inline_theme: nil - use an HTMLInline formatter with the given theme
    • line_numbers: false - use an HTMLTable formatter
    • wrap: true - use an HTMLPygments wrapper
    • css_class: 'codehilite' - a CSS class to use for the Pygments wrapper

  • Rouge::Formatters::Terminal256.new(theme) is a formatter for generating
    highlighted text for use in the terminal. theme must be an instance of
    Rouge::Theme, or a Hash structure with :theme entry.

  • Rouge::Formatters::TerminalTruecolor.new(theme) is similar to the previous,
    except it outputs ANSI truecolor codes, instead of approximating with a 256-color
    scheme.

  • Rouge::Formatters::Tex.new is a formatter for TeX systems which wraps each
    token with an \RG{toktype}{text} tag. You can then use
    rougify style mystyle --tex
    to generate definitions for these tags and the surrounding environment.

Writing your own HTML formatter

For the majority of applications, there are custom requirements for presenting
highlighted text, as HTML or otherwise. In these cases, rather than patching or
post-processing the output of Rouge, it is usually better to write your own
formatter.

This may sound intimidating, but it is actually quite easy! All you have to do
is subclass Rouge::Formatter, define a tag, and implement a method
#stream(tokens, &block), which receives an Enumerable of token/value pairs,
and yields out chunks of strings which will be concatenated.

The Formatter base class contains the helper method #token_lines(stream, &block),
which separates tokens into distinct lines, and Rouge::Formatters::HTML
contains the helper #span(token, value) to escape and render
standard <span> tags for HTML.

Alternatively, if you want to override how individual spans are rendered,
you can override #safe_span(token, safe_value), which will be passed the
token type and pre-escaped content for the token.

class MyFormatter < Rouge::Formatters::HTML

  # this is the main entry method. override this to customize the behavior of
  # the HTML blob as a whole. it should receive an Enumerable of (token, value)
  # pairs and yield out fragments of the resulting html string. see the docs
  # for the methods available on Token.
  def stream(tokens, &block)
    yield "<div class='my-outer-div'>"

    tokens.each do |token, value|
      # for every token in the output, we render a span
      yield span(token, value)
    end

    yield "</div>"
  end

  # or, if you need linewise processing, try:
  def stream(tokens, &block)
    token_lines(tokens).each do |line_tokens|
      yield "<div class='my-cool-line'>"
      line_tokens.each do |token, value|
        yield span(token, value)
      end
      yield "</div>"
    end
  end

  # Override this method to control how individual spans are rendered.
  # The value `safe_value` will already be HTML-escaped.
  def safe_span(token, safe_value)
    # in this case, "text" tokens don't get surrounded by a span
    if token == Token::Tokens::Text
      safe_value
    else
      "<span class=\"#{token.shortname}\">#{safe_value}</span>"
    end
  end
end

Lexer Options

  • debug: true will print a trace of the lex on stdout. For safety, this only works if Rouge::Lexer.enable_debug! has been called.

  • parent: '' allows you to specify which language the template is inside.

Theme Options

  • scope: '.highlight' sets the CSS selector to which styles are applied,
    e.g.:

    Rouge::Themes::MonokaiSublime.render(scope: 'code')

Documentation

Rouge's documentation is available at rouge-ruby.github.io/docs/.

Requirements

Ruby

Rouge is compatible with all versions of Ruby from 3.0 onwards. It has no
external dependencies.

Encodings

Rouge only supports UTF-8 strings. If you'd like to highlight a string with a
different encoding, please convert it to UTF-8 first.

Integrations

Contributing

We're always excited to welcome new contributors to Rouge. By it's nature, a
syntax highlighter relies for its success on submissions from users of the
languages being highlighted. You can help Rouge by filing bug reports or
developing new lexers.

Everyone interacting in Rouge and its sub-projects' code bases is expected to
follow the Rouge Code of Conduct.

Bug Reports

Rouge uses GitHub's Issues to report bugs. You can choose from
one of our templates or create a custom issue. Issues that have not been active
for a year are automatically closed by GitHub's Probot.

Developing Lexers

NOTE: Please don't submit lexers that are copy-pasted from other files.
These submission will be rejected and we don't want you to waste your time.

We want to make it as easy as we can for anyone to contribute a lexer to Rouge.
To help get you started, we have a guide on lexer
development in the documentation. The best place is to start there.

If you get stuck and need help, submit a pull request with what you have and
make it clear in your submission that the lexer isn't finished yet. We'll do our
best to answer any questions you have and sometimes the best way to do that is
with actual code.

If your language is internal or obscure, or it is taking far too long to merge
into baseline Rouge, you can very easily write a plugin for language support.
Check out our plugin example repository for a good starting point.

Testing Rouge

Once you've cloned the repository from GitHub, you can test the core of Rouge
simply by running rake (no bundle exec required). You can also run a single
test file by setting the TEST environment variable to the path of the desired
test. For example, to test just the ruby lexer (located at path
spec/lexers/ruby_spec.rb) simply run the following:

TEST=spec/lexers/ruby_spec.rb rake

To test a lexer visually, run puma from the top-level working directory and
you should have a web server running and ready to go. Visit
http://localhost:9292 to see the full list of Rouge's lexers.

Once you've selected a particular lexer, you can add ?debug=1 to your URL
string to see a lot of helpful debugging info printed on stdout.

Maintainers

Rouge is largely the result of the hard work of unpaid volunteers. It was
originally developed by Jeanine Adkisson (@jneen) and is currently maintained by
Jeanine Adkisson, Drew Blessing (@dblessing), Goro Fuji (@gfx) and Tan Le
(@tancnle).

License

Rouge is released under the MIT license. Please see the LICENSE file for more
information.

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Rouge aims to a be a simple, easy-to-extend drop-in replacement for pygments.

  • Homepage: http://rouge.jneen.net/
  • Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/rouge/
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