Sublime Text 2: How to set up consistent syntax highlighting for Guardfile?

Question

While it is easy enough to set the language for a given (open) file in Sublime Text, I'm wondering if there is any way that I can tell the editor in advance that anything called "Guardfile" should be highlighted like it's Ruby code. Does anyone know how to do this?

Almedaalmeeta

I happened to come across this plugin that will likely help you: github.com/phillipkoebbe/DetectSyntax – Roobbie

Or, to simplify & address the core issue: brizzled.clapper.org/blog/2012/02/06/… – Roobbie

Answer 1

The plugins recommended in the comments by Brian both do the job nicely:

1. ApplySyntax
2. SyntaxFromFileName

Update:

I couldn't get SyntaxFromFileName to match any of my regex for some reason. On the other hand, DetectSyntax comes with syntax highlight for the Guardfile built in.

Update2:

DetectSyntax has been renamed to ApplySyntax

Almedaalmeeta

My theory is that SyntaxFromFileName doesn't work with a Guardfile because a Guardfile doesn't have an extension. Anyway, just confirming ApplySyntax highlights wonderfully with ambiguous files. – Kobylak

Answer 2

Putting the following at the top of said file also works

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

Contrived