pygments.rb VS Rouge

Compare pygments.rb vs Rouge and see what are their differences.

pygments.rb

💎 Ruby wrapper for Pygments syntax highlighter (by tmm1)

Rouge

A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments (by rouge-ruby)
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pygments.rb Rouge
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570 3,274
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5.0 7.5
10 days ago 3 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License BSD 1-Clause License
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pygments.rb

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Rouge

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rouge. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-21.
  • Simple Dev.to Article Improvements
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Aug 2023
    To see if a particular language is supported you can use Rouge's handle tool rougify. First install a ruby interpreter. Then checkout the rouge source code and run bin/rougify list in the source code root directory:
  • Doesn't anybody use -w?
    1 project | /r/ruby | 20 Apr 2023
    But... it seems like so many programs were written without this rudimentary check on. Consider this example. I installed Rouge, the well regarded syntax highlighter. Here's some basic code, almost copied directly from their github page:
  • Rouge syntax highlighter removes support for Solidity “pyramid scheme”
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2022
  • Syntax highlighting library support for modern frontend frameworks
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Jun 2022
    I was going to write a post about Svelte and I was checking if it is a language that is supported by the highlighting library I use (Rouge). It is not! I guess I could fudge it by using HTML as the language for the code blocks because it is HTML-like. Or add a lexer/extension myself! 🤔
  • Glimmer DSL for LibUI Code Area (Ruby Tooling Future)
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2022
    Brandon Weaver has recently contacted me on the Glimmer Gitter to ask questions about Glimmer DSL for LibUI. He also mentioned the node pattern tool written by Marc-André Lafortune (a fellow Rubyist I know in Montreal), which is hosted on Heroku. Brandon said he was excited about the possibility of implementing something similar in pure Ruby using Glimmer DSL for LibUI by leveraging the rouge syntax highlighting gem. He has even blogged about the Ruby Tooling subject in the past with the title "Future of Ruby - AST Tooling", which Matz (creator of Ruby) has alluded to before.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pygments.rb and Rouge you can also consider the following projects:

CodeRay - Fast and easy syntax highlighting for selected languages, written in Ruby.

Gollum - A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

Highlight.js - JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.

Betty - Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don't remember a command? Ask Betty.

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