albino.rb

Path: lib/jekyll/albino.rb
Last Update: Thu Jan 06 09:03:36 +0000 2011

Wrapper for the Pygments command line tool, pygmentize.

Pygments: pygments.org/

Assumes pygmentize is in the path. If not, set its location with Albino.bin = ’/path/to/pygmentize‘

Use like so:

  @syntaxer = Albino.new('/some/file.rb', :ruby)
  puts @syntaxer.colorize

This‘ll print out an HTMLized, Ruby-highlighted version of ’/some/file.rb’.

To use another formatter, pass it as the third argument:

  @syntaxer = Albino.new('/some/file.rb', :ruby, :bbcode)
  puts @syntaxer.colorize

You can also use the colorize class method:

  puts Albino.colorize('/some/file.rb', :ruby)

Another also: you get a to_s, for somewhat nicer use in Rails views.

  ... helper file ...
  def highlight(text)
    Albino.new(text, :ruby)
  end

  ... view file ...
  <%= highlight text %>

The default lexer is ‘text’. You need to specify a lexer yourself; because we are using STDIN there is no auto-detect.

To see all lexers and formatters available, run `pygmentize -L`.

Chris Wanstrath // chris@ozmm.org

        GitHub // http://github.com

Required files

rubygems   test/spec   mocha   redgreen  

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