Rouge is a pure-ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight 100 different 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.

First, take a look at the pretty colors.

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

As of Rouge 2.0, you are encouraged to write your own formatter for custom formatting needs. Builtin formatters include:

• Rouge::Formatters::HTML.new - will render your code with standard class names for tokens, with no div-wrapping or other bells or whistles.
• Rouge::Formatters::HTMLInline.new(theme) - will render your code with no class names, but instead inline the styling options into the style= attribute. This is good for emails and other systems where CSS support is minimal.
• Rouge::Formatters::HTMLLinewise.new(formatter, class: 'line-%i') This formatter will split your code into lines, each contained in its own div. The class option will be used to add a class name to the div, given the line number.
• Rouge::Formatters::HTMLPygments.new(formatter, css_class='codehilite') wraps the given formatter with div wrappers generally expected by stylesheets designed for Pygments.
• Rouge::Formatters::HTMLTable.new(formatter, opts={}) will output an HTML table containing numbered lines. Options are:
  • start_line: 1 - the number of the first line
  • line_format: '%i' - a sprintf template for the line number itself
  • table_class: 'rouge-table' - a CSS class for the table
  • gutter_class: 'rouge-gutter' - a CSS class for the gutter
  • code_class: 'rouge-code' - a CSS class for the code column
• Rouge::Formatters::HTMLLegacy.new(opts={}) is a backwards-compatibility class intended for users of rouge 1.x, with options that were supported then. Options are:
  • inline_theme: nil - use an HTMLInline formatter with the given theme
  • line_numbers: false - use an HTMLTable formatter
  • wrap: true - use an HTMLPygments wrapper
  • css_class: 'codehilite' - a CSS class to use for the pygments wrapper
• Rouge::Formatters::Terminal256.new(theme)
  • theme must be an instnce of Rouge::Theme, or a Hash structure with :theme entry

Print a trace of the lex on stdout

Allows you to specify which language the template is inside

CSS selector that styles are applied to, e.g. Rouge::Themes::MonokaiSublime.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

• No need to spawn Python processes.
• We're faster in almost every measure

• 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 and more.

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.

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.

• Middleman: middleman-syntax (@bhollis)
• Middleman: middleman-rouge (@Linuus)
• RDoc: rdoc-rouge (@zzak)
• Rouge::Rails: render code samples in your rails views (@jacobsimeon)

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.

You can test the core of Rouge simply by running rake (no bundle exec required), or rake spec TEST=spec/xxx_spec.rb to run a single test file.

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.

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

We have a guide on lexer development in the documentation but you'll also learn a lot by reading through the existing lexers.

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

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

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