[LRUG] SourceClassifier gem

[Chris Lowis]

Hi LRUG,

I chatted to some of you about this project after Ruby Manor. I've
finally got round to releasing it as a gem:
http://github.com/chrislo/sourceclassifier/tree/master

Basically, it uses a Classifier to identify programming languages. It
can be used, for example, in blogging software to do automatic
colourisation of source code snippets.

Here's an example:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sourceclassifier'

s = SourceClassifier.new

ruby_text = <<EOT
def my_sorting_function(a)
  a.sort
end
EOT

c_text = <<EOT
#include <unistd.h>

int main() {
  write(1, "hello world\n", 12);
  return(0);
}
EOT

s.identify(ruby_text)    #=> Ruby
s.identify(c_text)         #=> Gcc


It's the first gem I've released, and I'm sure there's some teething
problems as a result. If anyone is interested, and would like to test
it for me - that'd be a big help!

Cheers,

Chris

-- 
Chris Lowis
http://blog.chrislowis.co.uk/