From: Asfand Yar Qazi <im_not_giving_it_here@..._hate_spam.com>
Date: 2004-03-14T16:34:36+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-mode.el - font lock not working?

Josh Huber wrote:
> Jim Menard <jimm@io.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>That happens to me too, and not just in Ruby mode. I have to add a
>>call to font-lock-mode to the mode hook. Here's my ruby-mode-hook:
>>
>>(setq ruby-mode-hook
>>      '(lambda ()
>>         (setq ruby-indent-level 4)
>>         ; (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)  ; Per advice on c.l.r
>>         (font-lock-mode 1)
>>         ))
> 
> 
> This doesn't help. (in fact, I already tried it...)
> global-font-lock-mode is enabled, and font-lock mode is enabled in
> the ruby buffer.  This appears to be some oddity specific to
> ruby-mode, unfortunately.  It's pretty confusing :P
> 


(Working with the 1.8.1 version of ruby-mode.el) if you apply the 
following patch to the ruby-mode.el file, it may work for you (it worked 
for me.)

*** /home/asfand/src/packages/ruby/ruby-1.8.1/misc/ruby-mode.el	Fri Dec 
19 17:29:09 2003
--- /home/asfand/.emacs-lisp/ruby-mode.el	Sun Mar 14 07:36:51 2004
***************
*** 162,166 ****
     :options '(t nil space) :group 'ruby)

! (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
   (defun ruby-imenu-create-index-in-block (prefix beg end)
     (let ((index-alist '()) (case-fold-search nil)
--- 162,169 ----
     :options '(t nil space) :group 'ruby)

! (eval-when-compile
!   (require 'cl)
!   (require 'font-lock)
!   )
   (defun ruby-imenu-create-index-in-block (prefix beg end)
     (let ((index-alist '()) (case-fold-search nil)