Question

I’m a pretty heavy user of colon hashes but the default Aptana Studio Ruby doesn’t provide any highlighting for them.

Here’s a colon hash in Ruby 1.9:

{ animal: "duck" }

Does anyone know what bits I need to punch to make the “animal:” part display in another colour?

Update:

It seems from reading the source that the PLists file isn’t being used by Aptana and that the feature is presently incomplete.
https://github.com/textmate/ruby.tmbundle/issues/17

I’ve tried changing the scopes in source but it doesn’t seem to update for me.

To find the scope Aptana is trying to highlight

1. Commands -> Bundle Development -> Show Scope and Matching Theme Rule (alternatively the default shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+P)
2. Read the box. It may list several scopes.

The way you add a scope:

1. Window -> Preferences
2. Select Aptana Studio then the Themes option.
3. Press the + button next to the Scope Selector textbox.
4. Add your scope and set the colours.
5. Apply and click OK

I’m all out of ideas. Hopefully this will help someone get closer.

Answer 1

Aptana Studio 3 uses TextMate themes for syntax highlighting, so you just need to find a TextMate theme that supports it.