Rouge

Rouge is a pure-ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 60 languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text. Its HTML output is compatible with stylesheets designed for pygments.

If you'd like to help out with this project, assign yourself something from the issues page, and send me a pull request (even if it's not done yet!). Bonus points for feature branches. In particular, I would appreciate help with the following lexers, from someone who has more experience with the language than I do:

• Delphi/Pascal

Usage

First, take a look at the pretty colors.

# make some nice lexed html
source = File.read('/etc/bashrc')
formatter = Rouge::Formatters::HTML.new(css_class: 'highlight')
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')

Full options

Formatter options

css_class: 'highlight'

Apply a class to the syntax-highlighted output. Set to false to not apply any css class.

line_numbers: false

Generate line numbers.

start_line: 1

Index to start line numbers.

inline_theme: nil

A Rouge::CSSTheme used to highlight the output with inline styles instead of classes. Allows string inputs (separate mode with a dot):

%w[colorful github monokai monokai.sublime thankful_eyes base16
   base16.dark base16.light base16.solarized base16.monokai]

wrap: true

Wrap the highlighted content in a container. Defaults to <pre><code>, or <div> if line numbers are enabled.

Lexer options

debug: false

Print a trace of the lex on stdout

parent: ''

Allows you to specify which language the template is inside

CSS theme options

scope: '.highlight'

CSS selector that styles are applied to, e.g. Rouge::Themes::Monokai.mode(:sublime).render(scope: 'code')

Rouge aims to be simple to extend, and to be a drop-in replacement for pygments, with the same quality of output. Also, Rouge ships with a rougify command which allows you to easily highlight files in your terminal:

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

Advantages to pygments.rb

• No need to spawn Python processes.

Advantages to CodeRay

• The HTML output from Rouge is fully compatible with stylesheets designed for pygments.
• The lexers are implemented with a dedicated DSL, rather than being hand-coded.
• Rouge supports every language CodeRay does except for Pascal/Delphi (pull requests happily accepted!), and more.

You can even use it with Redcarpet

require 'redcarpet'
require 'rouge'
require 'rouge/plugins/redcarpet'

class HTML < Redcarpet::Render::HTML
  include Rouge::Plugins::Redcarpet # yep, that's it.
end

If you have :fenced_code_blocks enabled, you can specify languages, and even options with CGI syntax, like php?start_inline=1, or erb?parent=javascript.

Encodings

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

Other integrations

• Middleman: middleman-syntax (@bhollis)
• Middleman: middleman-rouge (@Linuus)
• RDoc: rdoc-rouge (@zzak)

Contributing

Installing Ruby

If you're here to implement a lexer for your awesome language, there's a good chance you don't already have a ruby development environment set up. Follow the instructions on the wiki to get up and running. If you have trouble getting set up, let me know - I'm always happy to help.

Run the tests

You can test the core of Rouge simply by running rake (no bundle exec required). It's also set up with guard, if you like.

To test a lexer visually, run rackup from the root and go to localhost:9292/#{some_lexer} where some_lexer is the tag or an alias of a lexer you'd like to test. If you add ?debug=1, helpful debugging info will be printed on stdout.

API Documentation

is at http://rubydoc.info/gems/rouge/frames.

Using the lexer DSL

You can probably learn a lot just by reading through the existing lexers. Basically, a lexer consists of a collection of states, each of which has several rules. A rule consists of a regular expression and an action, which yields tokens and manipulates the state stack. Each rule in the state on top of the stack is tried in order until a match is found, at which point the action is run, the match consumed from the stream, and the process repeated with the new lexer on the top of the stack. Each lexer has a special state called :root, and the initial state stack consists of just this state.

Here's how you might use it:

class MyLexer < Rouge::RegexLexer
  state :root do
    # the "easy way"

    # simple rules
    rule /0x[0-9a-f]+/, Num::Hex

    # simple state stack manipulation
    rule /{-/, Comment, :next_state
    rule /-}/, Comment, :pop!

    # the "flexible way"
    rule /abc/ do |m|
      # m is the match, for accessing match groups manually

      # you can do the following things:
      pop!
      push :another_state
      push # assumed to be the current state
      state? :some_state # check if the current state is :some_state
      in_state? :some_state # check if :some_state is in the state stack

      # yield a token.  if no second argument is supplied, the value is
      # taken to be the whole match.
      # The sum of all the tokens yielded must be equivalent to the whole
      # match - otherwise characters will go missing from the user's input.
      token Generic::Output, m[0]

      # calls SomeOtherLexer.lex(str) and yields its output.  See the
      # HTML lexer for a nice example of this.
      # if no second argument is supplied, it is assumed to be the whole
      # match string.
      delegate SomeOtherLexer, str

      # the context object is the lexer itself, so you can stash state here
      @count ||= 0
      @count += 1

      # advanced: push a dynamically created anonymous state
      push do
        rule /.../, Generic::Output
      end
    end

    rule /(\w+)(:)/ do
      # "groups" yields the matched groups in order
      groups Name::Label, Punctuation
    end
  end

  start do
    # this is run whenever a fresh lex is started
  end
end

If you're creating a lexer that's very similar to a different lexer, you can use subclassing (see C/C++/ObjC and also QML/Javascript for examples):

class MyLexer < OtherLexer
  # independent states
  state :my_state do ... end

  # override states
  state :your_state do ... end

  # prepend rules to states
  prepand :parent_state do ... end

  # append rules to states
  append :parent_state do ... end
end

Please don't submit lexers that are largely copy-pasted from other files.

Tips

I don't get paid to maintain rouge. If you've found this software useful, consider dropping a tip in the bucket.

License

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