CREDITS.textile
h1. Credits
h3. Special Thanks to
* licenser (Heinz N. Gies) for ending my QBasic career, inventing the Coder project and the input/output plugin system. CodeRay would not exist without him.
* bovi (Daniel Bovensiepen) for helping me out on various occasions.
h3. Thanks to
* Caleb Clausen for writing "RubyLexer":http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylexer and lots of very interesting mail traffic
* birkenfeld (Georg Brandl) and mitsuhiku (Arnim Ronacher) for PyKleur, now Pygments. You guys rock!
* Jamis Buck for writing "Syntax":http://rubyforge.org/projects/syntax — I got some useful ideas from it.
* Doug Kearns and everyone else who worked on ruby.vim - it not only helped me coding CodeRay, but also gave me a wonderful target to reach for the Ruby scanner.
* everyone who uses CodeBB on "http://www.rubyforen.de":http://www.rubyforen.de and "http://www.python-forum.de":http://www.python-forum.de
* iGEL, magichisoka, manveru, WoNáDo and everyone I forgot from rubyforen.de
* Dethix from ruby-mine.de
* zickzackw
* Dookie (who is no longer with us...) and Leonidas from "http://www.python-forum.de":http://www.python-forum.de
* Andreas Schwarz for finding out that CaseIgnoringWordList was not case ignoring! Such things really make you write tests.
* closure for the first version of the Scheme scanner.
* Stefan Walk for the first version of the JavaScript and PHP scanners.
* Josh Goebel for another version of the JavaScript scanner, a SQL and a Diff scanner.
* Jonathan Younger for pointing out the licence confusion caused by wrong LICENSE file.
* Jeremy Hinegardner for finding the shebang-on-empty-file bug in FileType.
* Charles Oliver Nutter and Yehuda Katz for helping me benchmark CodeRay on JRuby.
* Andreas Neuhaus for pointing out a markup bug in coderay/for_redcloth.
* 0xf30fc7 for the FileType patch concerning Delphi file extensions.
* The folks at redmine.org - thank you for using and fixing CodeRay!
* Keith Pitt for his SQL scanners
* Rob Aldred for the terminal encoder
* Trans for pointing out $DEBUG dependencies
* Flameeyes for finding that Term::ANSIColor was obsolete
* matz and all Ruby gods and gurus
* The inventors of: the computer, the internet, the true color display, HTML & CSS, VIM, Ruby, pizza, microwaves, guitars, scouting, programming, anime, manga, coke and green ice tea.
Where would we be without all those people?
h3. Created using
* "Ruby":http://ruby-lang.org/
* Chihiro (my Sony VAIO laptop); Henrietta (my old MacBook); Triella, born Rico (my new MacBook); as well as Seras and Hikari (my PCs)
* "RDE":http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html, "VIM":http://vim.org and "TextMate":http://macromates.com
* "Subversion":http://subversion.tigris.org/
* "Redmine":http://redmine.org/
* "Firefox":http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/, "Firebug":http://getfirebug.com/, "Safari":http://www.apple.com/safari/, and "Thunderbird":http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
* "RubyGems":http://docs.rubygems.org/ and "Rake":http://rake.rubyforge.org/
* "TortoiseSVN":http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ using Apache via "XAMPP":http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
* RDoc (though I'm quite unsatisfied with it)
* Microsoft Windows (yes, I confess!) and MacOS X
* GNUWin32, MinGW and some other tools to make the shell under windows a bit less useless
* Term::"ANSIColor":http://term-ansicolor.rubyforge.org/
* "PLEAC":http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ code examples
* Github
* "Travis CI":http://travis-ci.org/rubychan/github
h3. Free
* As you can see, CodeRay was created under heavy use of *free* software.
* So CodeRay is also *free*.
* If you use CodeRay to create software, think about making this software *free*, too.
* Thanks :)