---
name: "ruby-beautify"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ruby-beautify"
version: "0.97.4-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ruby-beautify"
---

# ruby-beautify(1)

CLI binary that will pretty up Ruby code

## NAME

ruby-beautify, rbeautify - CLI binary that will pretty up Ruby code

## SYNOPSIS

**ruby-beautify** \[*-hVts*\] \[*-c \<count\>*\] \[*--overwrite*\] \[*\<file\>...*\]

**rbeautify** \[*-hVts*\] \[*-c \<count\>*\] \[*--overwrite*\] \[*\<file\>...*\]

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  Show some help.

- **-V**, **--version**

  Show version.

- **-t**, **--tabs**

  Use tab(s) as indent character.

- **-s**, **--spaces**

  Use space(s) as indent character.

- **-c \<count\>**, **--indent\_count \<count\>**

  Count of characters to use for indenting.

- **--overwrite**

  Overwrites file(s) in place. It won’t overwrite files that fail syntax check.

**\<file\>...**

Pretty up provided file(s).

If it is run without specifying a filename, it will read from STDIN.

## CONFIGURATION FILE

Options presented above can be set inside a configuration file named **.ruby-beautify**. It can be placed anywhere up in the directory tree. Options need to be separated by a new line and options that use parameter value require "=" to be added between parameter name and the value.

## HISTORY

The original analyzer that ruby-beautify was based on is available at: http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/rubyBeautifier.html.

Original work is based on sublime-text2 plugin: https://github.com/CraigWilliams/BeautifyRuby which was cleaned up and made suitable for use directly in a shell.

Ruby-beautify was recently re-written to use the stdlib ripper gem to do the lexical analyzing. Consequently all of the old legacy code was dropped.

## AUTHOR

Ernie Brodeur \<ebrodeur@ujami.net\>

This manpage was written by Tomasz Nitecki \<tnnn@tnnn.pl\> based on the original README.md.

## DATE

2015-04-09