= 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: 0.7.2 (2006.july.11)
Author:: murphy (Kornelius Kalnbach)
Contact:: murphy rubychan de
Website:: coderay.rubychan.de[http://coderay.rubychan.de]
Old Website:: rd.cYcnus.de/coderay[http://rd.cYcnus.de/coderay]
License:: GNU LGPL; see LICENSE file in the main directory.
Subversion:: $Id: README 168 2006-07-11 13:39:47Z 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.)


== 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 mails traffic
* 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 CodeRay on http://www.rubyforen.de and http://www.infhu.de/mx
* iGEL, magichisoka, manveru, WoNáDo 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
* 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/en/]
* Chihiro (my Sony VAIO laptop) and Seras (my Athlon 2200+ tower)
* VIM[http://vim.org]
* RDE[http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html]
* Microsoft Windows (yes, I confess!)
* 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

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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 :)