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Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester
- zefhous 15y agoOne of my favorite things about Rubular is the "Make Permalink" feature. Paste the link as a comment above your regex and you can easily get back to the same place later. The permalink includes your test string(s) and makes it really easy to see what was going on when you wrote it.
- jcblitz 15y agoYes it's a great tool, but this isn't exactly "news". Just Google rubular site:news.ycombinator.com
- thibaut_barrere 15y agoIt's certainly not new but worth sharing though. I've been using it for a long time, yet I come across people that don't know about it in each consulting gig I do.
- sammyo 15y agoHacker News should consider a "best of" list of some sort. Consider the sidebar feature on Metafilter.
- pspeter3 15y agoI agree, sometimes links posted on hacker news are just really old news
- skrebbel 15y agofor me, these tools just underline how horrible regex syntax really is.
- delano 15y agoRegex syntax can get nasty at times but after all these years it's still the best tool we've got for what it does.
- rawsyntax 15y agowell.. any ideas on how to make it better? I think we all want better regex syntax. Also, I don't necessarily think it's the syntax, but simply the power / complexity that regexes have.
- mhartl 15y agoYou can mitigate the horribleness by using x to enable multiline regexes and then include inline comments.
- hjaltij 15y agoI use this all the time even when I'm writing code in other languages. Love it.
- zquestz 15y agoYeah this has been around for ages, not sure why this got reposted. Either way, this is still by far the best regexp site out on the net right now. There just isn't a better way to test your regexps.
- aeontech 15y agoReWork is my go-to tool when I need to do anything with regexps. http://osteele.com/tools/rework/ http://osteele.com/tools/rework/
- smackjer 15y agoI use Rubular all the time, and it inspired me to build http://strfti.me http://strfti.me.
- SethWilson 15y agoAdding this tool to my bookmarks Thanks for the heads up
- tsigo 15y agoLooks good; great idea.
- catilac 15y agoOh wow I wish I knew about this sooner. More useful to me than rubular :)
- f1gm3nt 15y agohttp://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/ http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/ Anyone use this?
- erik_p 15y agois it regular expression day on HN? Waiting for the inevitable Phplar (pheeplar) and Scalar :)
- bstar 15y agoI've been using rubular since it's inception. There are lots of sites/apps for building regex's, but rubular has always been my goto guy. To the developer, thanks for an awesome site!