pygments.rb is a Ruby wrapper for Pygments syntax highlighter.
pygments.rb works by talking over a simple pipe to a long-lived Python child process. This library replaces github/albino, as well as an older version of pygments.rb that used an embedded Python interpreter.
Each Ruby process that runs has its own 'personal Python'; for example, 4 Unicorn workers will have one Python process each. If a Python process dies, a new one will be spawned on the next pygments.rb request.
Add this line to your applicationโs Gemfile:
gem 'pygments.rb'
And then execute:
$ bundle install
Or install pygments.rb gem yourself as:
$ gem install pygments.rb
Require pygments.rb module:
require 'pygments'
Highlight a file:
Pygments.highlight(File.read(__FILE__), lexer: 'ruby')
Optionally, pass encoding and other lexer/formatter options via an :options
hash:
Pygments.highlight('code', options: {encoding: 'utf-8'})
pygments.rb uses HTML formatter by default.
To use a different formatter, specify it via :formatter
parameter:
Pygments.highlight('code', formatter: 'bbcode')
Pygments.highlight('code', formatter: 'terminal')
To generate CSS for HTML formatted code, use the Pygments.css
method:
Pygments.css
Pygments.css('.highlight')
To use a specific pygments style, pass the :style
option to the Pygments.css
method:
Pygments.css(style: 'monokai')
Other Pygments high-level API methods are also available. These methods return arrays detailing all the available lexers, formatters, and styles:
Pygments.lexers
Pygments.formatters
Pygments.styles
To use a custom pygments installation, specify the path to
Pygments.start
:
Pygments.start("/path/to/pygments")
If youโd like logging, set the environmental variable MENTOS_LOG
to a file path for your logfile.
You can apply a timeout to pygments.rb calls by specifying number of seconds in MENTOS_TIMEOUT
environmental variable or by passing the :timeout
argument (takes precedence over MENTOS_TIMEOUT
):
Pygments.highlight('code', timeout: 4)
$ ruby bench.rb 50 Benchmarking.... Size: 698 bytes Iterations: 50 user system total real pygments popen 0.010000 0.010000 0.020000 ( 0.460370) pygments popen (process already started) 0.010000 0.000000 0.010000 ( 0.272975) pygments popen (process already started 2) 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.273589)
$ ruby bench.rb 10 Benchmarking.... Size: 15523 bytes Iterations: 10 user system total real pygments popen 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.819419) pygments popen (process already started) 0.010000 0.000000 0.010000 ( 0.676515) pygments popen (process already started 2) 0.000000 0.010000 0.010000 ( 0.674189)
After checking out the repo, run bundle install
to install dependencies.
Then, run bundle exec rake test
to run the tests.
Copyright ยฉ Ted Nyman, Aman Gupta, Marat Radchenko, 2012-2021. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the MIT License.
For the full text of the license, see the LICENSE file.