Indent and colorize HTML strings in pry
An issue I run into frequently while testing with tools like capybara by dropping into pry is that the last response for a page is a single string, containing the HTML that was rendered. But those string have lost indentation and generally make it really hard to see the content of the page, or whatever you care about.
For example, a simple login page might look like:
pry » page.body
=> "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Mysite</title><link data-turbolinks-track=\"true\" href=\"/assets/application.css\" media=\"all\" rel=\"stylesheet\" /><script data-turbolinks-track=\"true\" src=\"/assets/application.js\"></script></head><body><div class=\"content\"><h1><a href=\"/\">Mysite</a></h1><nav class=\"primary\"><ul class=\"main\"><li class=\"main\"><a href=\"/users/sign_in\">Log In/Sign Up</a></li><li class=\"main\"><a class=\"text\" href=\"#\">About</a></li></ul></nav></div><div class=\"content\"><h2>Log In</h2><div class=\"full_page_form\"><form accept-charset=\"UTF-8\" action=\"/users/sign_in\" class=\"half\" id=\"new_user\" method=\"post\"><div style=\"margin:0;padding:0;display:inline\"><input name=\"utf8\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"✓\" /></div><fieldset><div class=\"form-field email \"><label for=\"user_email\">Email</label><input autofocus=\"autofocus\" id=\"user_email\" name=\"user[email]\" type=\"email\" value=\"\" /></div><div class=\"form-field password \"><label for=\"user_password\">Password</label><input id=\"user_password\" name=\"user[password]\" type=\"password\" /></div><div class=\"form-field remember_me \"><input name=\"user[remember_me]\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"0\" /><input id=\"user_remember_me\" name=\"user[remember_me]\" type=\"checkbox\" value=\"1\" /><label class=\"inline\" for=\"user_remember_me\">Remember me</label></div><div class=\"form-field submit\"><button class=\"secondary\" name=\"button\" type=\"submit\">Log In</button></div><p class=\"forgot-password\"><a href=\"/users/password/new\">Forgot your Password?</a></p></fieldset></form><div class=\"second-half\"><h3>Coming soon!</h3><p>Soon, you'll be able to log in with Facebook...</p></div></div><div class=\"call-to-action-button\"><a href=\"/sign_up\">New to Mysite? Sign up for an account to get goin'!</a></div></div><footer><div class=\"content\"></footer></body></html>"Wouldn't it be great if Pry could re-indent and colorize that string of HTML for you? Well, I put together a quick little Pry command that does. Throw this into your ~/.pryrc:
Pry::Commands.create_command "html5tidy" do
description "Print indented, colorized HTML from the input: html5tidy [ARGS]"
command_options requires_gem: ['nokogiri']
def process
@object_to_interrogate = args.empty? ? target_self : target.eval(args.join(" "))
cleaned_html = Nokogiri::XML(@object_to_interrogate,&:noblanks)
colorized_text = Pry.config.color ? CodeRay.scan(cleaned_html, :html).term : cleaned_html
output.puts colorized_text
end
endOriginally, I had tried to use the html5 fork of the tidy command: https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5 but that tool changes the HTML as it parses it, and spits out a bunch of warnings. So instead, I have this pry command use nokogiri when it is available. The command should warn you if you try to use it without nokogiri available. What is output should be very close to the original rendered HTML, just cleaned up and re-indented.
So what does it look like in action?
pry » html5tidy page.body
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Mysite</title>
<link data-turbolinks-track="true" href="/assets/application.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script data-turbolinks-track="true" src="/assets/application.js"/>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<h1>
<a href="/">Mysite</a>
</h1>
<nav class="primary">
<ul class="main">
<li class="main">
<a href="/users/sign_in">Log In/Sign Up</a>
</li>
<li class="main">
<a class="text" href="#">About</a>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
<div class="content">
<h2>Log In</h2>
<div class="full_page_form">
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/users/sign_in" class="half" id="new_user" method="post">
<div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline">
<input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓"/>
</div>
<fieldset>
<div class="form-field email ">
<label for="user_email">Email</label>
<input autofocus="autofocus" id="user_email" name="user[email]" type="email" value=""/>
</div>
<div class="form-field password ">
<label for="user_password">Password</label>
<input id="user_password" name="user[password]" type="password"/>
</div>
<div class="form-field remember_me ">
<input name="user[remember_me]" type="hidden" value="0"/>
<input id="user_remember_me" name="user[remember_me]" type="checkbox" value="1"/>
<label class="inline" for="user_remember_me">Remember me</label>
</div>
<div class="form-field submit">
<button class="secondary" name="button" type="submit">Log In</button>
</div>
<p class="forgot-password">
<a href="/users/password/new">Forgot your Password?</a>
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
<div class="second-half">
<h3>Coming soon!</h3>
<p>Soon, you'll be able to log in with Facebook...</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="call-to-action-button">
<a href="/sign_up">New to Mysite? Sign up for an account to get goin'!</a>
</div>
</div>
<footer>
<div class="content"/>
</footer>
</body>
</html>(imagine that pry has colorized this output, too, through the excellent CodeRay tool.)
I'd love to hear from you if you find this useful! Or even if you don't find it useful, but have some suggestions to improve it. Thanks!
Written by Matt Gauger
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Yes! Thank you, Matt -- I need this about six hundred times a day. There should definitely be a pry plugin for this; it's far more convenient than launchy for most tasks. This almost works great, but for two issues:
1) Would be nice if the output went through the pry pager. After several minutes of fiddling I gave up trying to do that. (Pry has a Pry.pager method, but it just returns 'true' -- I'm not sure how to actually access the pager and use it.)
2) For some reason the output of the html5tidy command shows me only the first child of any element. For instance, when I run 'html5tidy page.body', I get
<html>
<head>
<title/>
<body>
<nav id="navbar-top" role="navigation">
<ul>
<li class="active">
<a href="/surveys">surveys</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/users">users</a>
</li>
</nav>
</body>
</head>
</html>
That's it. All the real content of the page, which is available if I just print 'page.body' straight up, is in a <div class="container"> which is sibling to the nav, and doesn't show up. (This first-child-only problem persists no matter what element I print; it's not specific to <div class="container">).
Would love to get your thoughts on either of these issues ...
huh. Nice work, coderwall. The second part of that comment, slightly modified, should read:
That's it. All the real content of the page, which is available if I just print 'page.body' straight up, is in a div which is sibling to the nav, and doesn't show up. (This first-child-only problem persists no matter what element I print; it's not specific to the div).
Would love to get your thoughts on either of these issues ...
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