Ruby Local Variable Syntax Highlighting

[StlTenny]

I am trying to get syntax highlighting for ruby local variables working, and I can’t seem to figure it out. I believe it should be possible but i am not sure.

Here is my goal. For instance and class variables I have them highlighted in the burnt orange color (see #1). I would like the same for local variables (see #2).

Using command + option + p on the local variables, such as children or next_category_id reveals that it is in the ruby.source scope so it would seem that there is no match for it under the Ruby.tmLanguage file.

Has anyone overcome this problem? Is there an easy way to add coloring, maybe a Regex to the Ruby.tmLanguage file to recognize it? Am I overthinking this?

[AGS]

An progress on this?

[Inkling]

(Better?) Ruby Syntax Highlighting

I've recently taken quite a liking to the Base16 set of themes, in particular, Solarized, Eighties, and Tomorrow Night. However, when using it with Ruby, I realized that the output looked nothing like the example shown here: chriskempson.github.io/base16/ . When I examined the scopes of the uncolorized elements, I discovered that many of them remained unscoped. This led me on a quest to find a better tmLanguage file for Ruby, but I was greatly surprised to find out that very little developmen…

This was the best I could find. It’s not perfect because of the nature of Ruby variable/method syntax, but it still gets things right the vast majority of the time.