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I was using this wiki as a place to start drafting more notes and documentation on using this project. The documentation effort’s moved away from these wiki pages and onto a site of its own structured using github’s gh-pages feature:

ANTLR For Ruby Guide

Basic Usage

• Generating Code from Basic Lexer/Parser Grammars
• Output Files
• Lexers
• Parsers
• Input Streams
• Actions
• Special Named Actions

Abstract Syntax Trees

• ANTLR ASTs in Ruby
• Construction ASTs
• Parsing ASTs with Tree Parsers

Template Output

Debugging / Profiling Grammars

• Enabling Rule Tracing
• Debug Mode
• Profile Mode

Miscellaneous / Advanced Features

• Filter-mode Lexers
• Importing other Grammar Files (Delegation)
• Emitting Multiple Tokens in a Lexer Rule

Issues / Design Notes

• Incompatibilities with Ruby 1.9