diff --git a/app/controllers/projects/blob_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects/blob_controller.rb
index c56a3497bb2d096cb00231fa979148c0c22c8037..d22c7b550b06a398db87ed30a40349aa0b51608d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects/blob_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects/blob_controller.rb
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class Projects::BlobController < Projects::ApplicationController
 
   def diff
     @form = UnfoldForm.new(params)
-    @lines = @blob.data.lines[@form.since - 1..@form.to - 1]
+    @lines = Gitlab::Diff::Highlight.process_diff_lines(@blob.name, @blob.data.lines[@form.since - 1..@form.to - 1])
 
     if @form.bottom?
       @match_line = ''
diff --git a/app/views/projects/blob/diff.html.haml b/app/views/projects/blob/diff.html.haml
index f3b01ff3288b1723eecaa8f266eae7111746514c..9d8f6ecb3ac868ae559816751d72186f2fe1d9c0 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/blob/diff.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/blob/diff.html.haml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       %td.old_line.diff-line-num{data: {linenumber: line_old}}
         = link_to raw(line_old), "#"
       %td.new_line= link_to raw(line_new) , "#"
-      %td.line_content.noteable_line= ' ' * @form.indent + line
+      %td.line_content.noteable_line= raw("#{' ' * @form.indent}#{line}")
 
   - if @form.unfold? && @form.bottom? && @form.to < @blob.loc
     %tr.line_holder{ id: @form.to }
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight.rb b/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight.rb
index c780ea2177591ca9f3ada0342b30735ac5a7c0b4..7f340de65cc58f27e39472f2c93dd0e282c75f7e 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight.rb
@@ -1,31 +1,62 @@
 module Gitlab
   module Diff
     class Highlight
-      def self.process_diff_lines(file_name, diff_lines)
-        processor = new(file_name, diff_lines)
+      # Apply syntax highlight to provided source code
+      #
+      # file_name - The file name related to the code.
+      # lines     - It can be an Array of Gitlab::Diff::Line objects or simple Strings.
+      #             When passing Strings you need to provide the required 'end of lines'
+      #             chars ("\n") for each String given that we don't append them automatically.
+      #
+      # Returns an Array with the processed items.
+      def self.process_diff_lines(file_name, lines)
+        processor = new(file_name, lines)
         processor.highlight
       end
 
-      def initialize(file_name, diff_lines)
-        text_lines          = diff_lines.map(&:text)
-        @file_name          = file_name
-        @diff_lines         = diff_lines
-        @diff_line_prefixes = text_lines.map { |line| line.sub!(/\A((\+|\-)\s*)/, '');$1 }
-        @raw_lines          = text_lines.join("\n")
+      def initialize(file_name, lines)
+        @file_name  = file_name
+        @lines      = lines
       end
 
       def highlight
-        @code = unescape_html(@raw_lines)
+        return [] if @lines.empty?
+
+        extract_line_prefixes
+
+        @code             = unescape_html(raw_content)
         @highlighted_code = formatter.format(lexer.lex(@code))
 
-        update_diff_lines
+        is_diff_line? ? update_diff_lines : @highlighted_code.lines
       end
 
       private
 
+      def is_diff_line?
+        @lines.first.is_a?(Gitlab::Diff::Line)
+      end
+
+      def text_lines
+        @text_lines ||= (is_diff_line? ? @lines.map(&:text) : @lines)
+      end
+
+      def raw_content
+        @raw_content ||= text_lines.join(is_diff_line? ? "\n" : nil)
+      end
+
+      def extract_line_prefixes
+        @diff_line_prefixes ||= begin
+          if is_diff_line?
+            text_lines.map { |line| line.sub!(/\A((\+|\-)\s*)/, '');$1 }
+          else
+            []
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
       def update_diff_lines
         @highlighted_code.lines.each_with_index do |line, i|
-          diff_line = @diff_lines[i]
+          diff_line = @lines[i]
 
           # ignore highlighting for "match" lines
           next if diff_line.type == 'match'
@@ -33,7 +64,7 @@ module Gitlab
           diff_line.text = "#{@diff_line_prefixes[i]}#{line}"
         end
 
-        @diff_lines
+        @lines
       end
 
       def lexer
diff --git a/spec/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight_spec.rb b/spec/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight_spec.rb
index 54621f773d76d2e5c34dd44c13658ae3e648d31e..fc5cb894d2a6e88a4ad8b860b7afa4aaf2809076 100644
--- a/spec/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/gitlab/diff/highlight_spec.rb
@@ -9,25 +9,41 @@ describe Gitlab::Diff::Highlight, lib: true do
   let(:diff_file) { Gitlab::Diff::File.new(diff) }
 
   describe '.process_diff_lines' do
-    let(:diff_lines) { Gitlab::Diff::Highlight.process_diff_lines(diff_file.new_path, diff_file.diff_lines) }
+    context 'when processing Gitlab::Diff::Line objects' do
+      let(:diff_lines) { Gitlab::Diff::Highlight.process_diff_lines(diff_file.new_path, diff_file.diff_lines) }
 
-    it 'should return Gitlab::Diff::Line elements' do
-      expect(diff_lines.first).to be_an_instance_of(Gitlab::Diff::Line)
-    end
+      it 'should return Gitlab::Diff::Line elements' do
+        expect(diff_lines.first).to be_an_instance_of(Gitlab::Diff::Line)
+      end
 
-    it 'should highlight the code' do
-      code = %Q{<span id="LC3" class="line">   <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">popen</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cmd</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kp">nil</span><span class="p">)</span></span>\n}
+      it 'should highlight the code' do
+        code = %Q{<span id="LC3" class="line">   <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">popen</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">cmd</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kp">nil</span><span class="p">)</span></span>\n}
 
-      expect(diff_lines[2].text).to eq(code)
-    end
+        expect(diff_lines[2].text).to eq(code)
+      end
+
+      it 'should keep the inline diff markup' do
+        expect(diff_lines[5].text).to match(Regexp.new(Regexp.escape('<span class="idiff">RuntimeError, </span>')))
+      end
 
-    it 'should keep the inline diff markup' do
-      expect(diff_lines[5].text).to match(Regexp.new(Regexp.escape('<span class="idiff">RuntimeError, </span>')))
+      it 'should not modify "match" lines' do
+        expect(diff_lines[0].text).to eq('@@ -6,12 +6,18 @@ module Popen')
+        expect(diff_lines[22].text).to eq('@@ -19,6 +25,7 @@ module Popen')
+      end
     end
 
-    it 'should not modify "match" lines' do
-      expect(diff_lines[0].text).to eq('@@ -6,12 +6,18 @@ module Popen')
-      expect(diff_lines[22].text).to eq('@@ -19,6 +25,7 @@ module Popen')
+    context 'when processing raw lines' do
+      let(:lines) { ["puts 'Hello'\n", "# A comment"] }
+      let(:highlighted_lines) { Gitlab::Diff::Highlight.process_diff_lines('demo.rb', lines) }
+
+      it 'should highlight the code' do
+        line_1 = %Q{<span id="LC1" class="line"><span class="nb">puts</span> <span class="s1">&#39;Hello&#39;</span></span>\n}
+        line_2 = %Q{<span id="LC2" class="line"><span class="c1"># A comment</span></span>}
+
+        expect(highlighted_lines[0]).to eq(line_1)
+        expect(highlighted_lines[1]).to eq(line_2)
+      end
     end
+
   end
 end