Source Viewer is source code viewing as a service, a simple web service that allows you to see the source code of a web page (or any other file that can be accessed through an URL).
The source code of web pages can already be seen by using the contextual menu "view page source" on your web browsers, but this is not enough.
I wanted the ability to jump directly to a line by using an anchor, and also to colorize the syntax (not all web browsers do this automatically).
Sometimes, you can't even use the contextual menu as it has been disabled on the web page that you want to inspect.
But the main reason was to have a way to link to this source view directly, instead of using a contextual menu.
This is a Sinatra app, ready to be deployed into production on your server.
The app has just one entry point, /show, that accepts a single parameter for the URL to be shown, here's an example:
/show?url=https://github.com
This will fetch the URL and show it, that's all.
You can also jump to a line by using an anchor on the URL, like this:
/show?url=https://github.com#line-137
This app uses the OpenUriRedirections gem, that patches Ruby's OpenURI to allow redirections from HTTP to HTTPS and vice versa.
If you want to specify a custom User Agent to be used when fetching the page, you can use the user_agent param, like this:
/show?url=https://github.com&user_agent=Gadget
You can use a different Highlight.js CSS theme using the theme param, like this:
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=arta
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=ascetic
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=brown_paper
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=dark
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=default
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=docco
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=far
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=foundation
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=github
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=googlecode
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=idea
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=ir_black
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=magula
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=mono-blue
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=monokai
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=monokai_sublime
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=obsidian
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=pojoaque
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=railscasts
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=rainbow
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=school_book
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=solarized_dark
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=solarized_light
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=sunburst
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=tomorrow-night-blue
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=tomorrow-night-bright
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=tomorrow-night-eighties
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=tomorrow-night
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=tomorrow
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=vs
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=xcode
/show?url=https://github.com&theme=zenburn
bundle install
We use the rerun gem so that it detects changes in the filesystem and reloads the app automatically.
rerun 'ruby app.rb'
The local server will be accessible at http://localhost:4567
This is free open source software uses the MIT license.