Bug with class variable highlighting in Ruby code blocks [duplicate]

Question

It appears that Ruby class variables aren't fully highlighted on Stack Overflow:

class Foo
  @class_instance_var = 1 # fine
  @@class_var = 2         # not fully highlighted
end

The class instance variable gets full highlighting, but the double @ seems to throw the highlighter a bit.

I've submitted an issue to the google prettify repository, with a patch that appears to solve the problem. Thanks to @CodyGray for the information.

Upvoted, since this happens even if you use language-specific syntax highlighting. — Nightfirecat, Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 16:18

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:31:26Z

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The Stack Exchange team outsources code highlighting to Google Prettify, so this bug will need to be filed with and corrected by the Prettify team.

Once Prettify is updated, the latest version can be deployed across the network. (You might need to ping one of them with a request to do so.)

It might be a simple fix. If you know how to do it yourself, you might go ahead and submit a patch.

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edited Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31

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answered Apr 5, 2013 at 4:59

Cody Gray

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Thanks, I've created an issue and submitted a patch on google prettify.
– Jon Cairns
Commented Apr 5, 2013 at 9:13

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