- start hacking on a doc generator

docgen.rb

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+
+class LogStashConfigDocGenerator
+  COMMENT_RE = /^ *#(.*)/
+  RULES = {
+    COMMENT_RE => lambda { |m| add_comment(m[1]) },
+    /^ *config .*/ => lambda { |m| add_config(m[0]) },
+  }
+
+  def parse(string)
+    buffer = ""
+    string.split("\n").each do |line|
+
+      if line =~ COMMENT_RE
+        # nothing
+      else
+        # Join extended lines
+        if line =~ /(, *$)|(\\$)/
+          buffer += line.gsub(/\\$/, "")
+          next
+        end
+      end
+
+      p line
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+if __FILE__ == $0
+  gen = LogStashConfigDocGenerator.new
+  gen.parse(File.new(ARGV[0]).read)
+end