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I love rubular too. Question though... Why isn't it open source?

• mhartl 14y ago
  What would be gained if it were? I suppose you could run it locally. Come to think of it, that would be nice.
  • blaines 14y ago
    - Yes, run it locally. (Sometimes I want to test against sensitive information) - Learn how a regex editor is built. - Use a different regex engine (is that possible to swap)? [1] I'm sure there are more reasons. 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expressio...
    • riffraff 14y ago
      as for [1] yes, you're just unable to use ruby's syntax. Oniguruma (regex engine in ruby1.9) existed as an external library in the past (1.8) and you can get stuff like re2 for ruby this days[1] [1] https://github.com/mudge/re2 https://github.com/mudge/re2
• logn 14y ago
  It's not much more than a webapp wrapper around Ruby's built-in regex functionality.