Uses regular expressions to strip things that look like comments from strings.

Supported extensions: css, glsl, html, properties, yml

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'strip_comments'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install strip_comments

require 'strip_comments'
input = File.open("your.yml").read
stripped = StripComments::strip_yaml(input)

You can use this to, for example, rewrite all source files in a folder:

require "strip_comments"

Dir.glob(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "**", "*.{css,html,yml,properties,glsl}")).each do |filename|
  extension = filename.split(".").last
  input = File.open(filename).read
  output = StripComments::strip(extension, input)

  File.write(filename, output)
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then push into release branch. GitHub actions will automatically publish the new gem version to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/soundasleep/strip_comments.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.