= 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: 0.8.4
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.

== Installation

You need RubyGems[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126].

 % gem install coderay


=== Dependencies

CodeRay needs Ruby 1.8.6 or later. It also runs with Ruby 1.9.1+ and JRuby 1.1+.


== 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 <murphy rubychan de>.


== 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.
* bovi (Daniel Bovensiepen) for helping me out on various occasions.

=== 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, now pygments.
  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 uses CodeBB on http://www.rubyforen.de and http://www.python-forum.de
* iGEL, magichisoka, manveru, WoNáDo and everyone I forgot from rubyforen.de
* Dethix from ruby-mine.de
* zickzackw
* 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.
* closure for the first version of the Scheme scanner.
* Stefan Walk for the first version of the JavaScript scanner.
* Josh Goebel for another version of the JavaScript scanner and a Diff scanner.
* Jonathan Younger for pointing out the licence confusion caused by wrong LICENSE file.
* Jeremy Hinegardner for finding the shebang-on-empty-file bug in FileType.
* Charles Oliver Nutter and Yehuda Katz for helping me benchmark CodeRay on JRuby.
* Andreas Neuhaus for pointing out a markup bug in coderay/for_redcloth.
* The folks at redmine.org - thank you for using and fixing CodeRay!
* 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 old MacBook);
  Triella, born Rico (my new MacBook); as well as
  Seras and Hikari (my PCs)
* RDE[http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html],
  VIM[http://vim.org] and TextMate[http://macromates.com]
* Subversion[http://subversion.tigris.org/]
* Redmine[http://redmine.org/]
* Firefox[http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/],
  Firebug[http://getfirebug.com/], and
  Thunderbird[http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/]
* RubyGems[http://docs.rubygems.org/] and Rake[http://rake.rubyforge.org/]
* TortoiseSVN[http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/] using Apache via
  XAMPP[http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]
* RDoc (though I'm quite unsatisfied with it)
* Microsoft Windows (yes, I confess!) and MacOS X
* GNUWin32, MinGW and some other tools to make the shell under windows a bit
  less useless
* Term::ANSIColor[http://term-ansicolor.rubyforge.org/]
* PLEAC[http://pleac.sourceforge.net/] code examples

=== Free

* 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 :)