regular expression testing playground with ruby and sinatra
[~/sinatra/regexp(master)]$ cat regex-tester.rb require 'sinatra' # gem install sinatra --no-ri --no-rdoc set :port, 3000 html = <<-EOT <html><head><style> #regex,#text{ width:100%; font-size:15px; display:block; margin-bottom:5px; } #text{ height: 200px; } span{ background:rgb(230,191,161); display:inline-block; border-radius:3px;} </style></head><body> <input id="regex" placeholder="Regex"/> <textarea id="text" placeholder="Text"></textarea> <div id="result"></div> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script> <script> $('#regex,#text').keyup(function(){ $.get('/preview',{ reg:$('#regex').val(), text:$('#text').val() },function(r){ $('#result').html(r); }); }); </script> </body></html> EOT get('/'){ html } get '/preview' do begin params['text'].gsub(/(#{params['reg']})/,'<span>\1</span>') rescue 'Your regex is invalid' end end