Ruby.sugar

A simple first stab at a Sugar for the Espresso text editor for Ruby source development.

Using

First install any and all dependencies, listed below. The instructions for doing so can be found on their respective homes.

Clone this project somewhere, with the following:

git clone git://github.com/AaronH/ruby.sugar.git ./Ruby.sugar

And then link it to your syntaxes directory:

mkdir -p "~/Library/Application Support/Espresso/Sugars/"
ln -s "$(pwd)/Ruby.sugar" "/Users/$(whoami)/Library/Application Support/Espresso/Sugars/"

Dependencies

• Regex.sugar

Caveats

The naming conventions among Sugar developers and themers aren't really concrete as of yet. Thus, there's a good chance that a given theme won't be able to show all of the data about a a given file that is associated with a given sugar as of yet. Specifically, the default theme that is currently being distributed with the Espresso previews can't handle this Sugar - if you just plug this Sugar into Espresso, you won't see much interesting stuff in the way of highlighting.

This situation will improve when we come up with a set of community standards and start adhering to them, until then, hang tight.

TODO

• Syntax/Itemizers
  • All other flow control elements (if/unless…then…else, case…when, begin…end, all of the above plus …rescue…ensure)
    • Make sure single line uses work as well, including rescue.
  • 'Fix' the whole method- and block-arguments thing, it's really inadequate right now. It really should be describing what arguments allow, not just pulling in the variable collection (for the most part).
  • Method calls, including arguments and blocks.
  • Class/module definitions
  • Constants (including nesting)
  • Operators
  • Fix the regular expression interpolation SyntaxInjection such that interpolations work inside other regex structures, such as groups
  • Octal/Hex, and Control/Meta string escapes.
  • Heredocs
  • Symbols
  • Ranges
  • Arrays (Might be hard, the syntax is so very simple)
  • Hashes
  • Special method names that aren't simple symbols
  • And the hard one: percent-delimited strings. No idea how to do this one.
• CodeSense
  • Everything!
• Actions
  • Running Ruby scripts from within Espresso
  • Everything!
• All new 1.9 syntax