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Switch back to rouge gem for synthax highlighting

Matthias Käppler requested to merge github/fork/rumpelsepp/rouge into master

Created by: rumpelsepp

I have mainly created the rugments fork for the purpose of improving gitlab's highlighting. Nowadays IMO it works way better than the old highlight.js solution. But the development is stuck on my side because of a couple of personal reasons:

  • I have finished my studies; last months I was writing my master thesis. So there was a huge time problem. I am sorry for that.
  • I had to move to Munich due to getting a (paid) job. Searching a flat here is horrible... :)
  • Last but not least, maintaining the same code base in two seperate projects is a mess.

I have decided to switch back to rouge due to several reasons:

  • In the beginning I was quite motivated, but since I start working on my new job next week, the best solution IMO is switching back to upstream rouge.
  • Rouge is continously improving: https://github.com/jneen/rouge/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md http://rouge.jneen.net/
  • I am going to submit pull request to rouge, though. I had some ideas how it can be improved.
  • There should be absolutely no regressions with this change. Most likely this pull request will almost fix some minor bugs.
  • One less gem in gitlab is a good thing. since Gitlab is quite a huge bundle of gems. Reducing complexity should be a major milestone.

Work to be done:

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