Ruby ThreadSafe JSMin Library
December 13, 2009
I needed a thread-safe JSMin library for compressing javascripts on the fly on UploadBooth, so I took an existing ruby implementation and made it thread safe. I don’t think there was license defined when I got it, so I am re-releasing it as-is.
require 'monitor'
class JSMin
EOF = -1
include MonitorMixin
# jsmin -- Copy the input to the output, deleting the characters which are
# insignificant to JavaScript. Comments will be removed. Tabs will be
# replaced with spaces. Carriage returns will be replaced with linefeeds.
# Most spaces and linefeeds will be removed.
# thread safe
def minimize(jstext)
synchronize do
@theA = ""
@theB = ""
@current = 0
@output = ""
@text = jstext
@theA = "\n"
action(3)
while (@theA != JSMin::EOF)
case @theA
when " "
if (isAlphanum(@theB))
action(1)
else
action(2)
end
when "\n"
case (@theB)
when "{","[","(","+","-"
action(1)
when " "
action(3)
else
if (isAlphanum(@theB))
action(1)
else
action(2)
end
end
else
case (@theB)
when " "
if (isAlphanum(@theA))
action(1)
else
action(3)
end
when "\n"
case (@theA)
when "}","]",")","+","-","\"","\\", "'", '"'
action(1)
else
if (isAlphanum(@theA))
action(1)
else
action(3)
end
end
else
action(1)
end
end
end
@output
end
end
private
# isAlphanum -- return true if the character is a letter, digit, underscore,
# dollar sign, or non-ASCII character
def isAlphanum(c)
return false if !c || c == JSMin::EOF
return ((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= '0' && c <= '9') ||
(c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') || c == '_' || c == '$' ||
c == '\\' || c[0] > 126)
end
# get -- return the next character from stdin. Watch out for lookahead. If
# the character is a control character, translate it to a space or linefeed.
# thread safe
def get
return JSMin::EOF if @current>(@text.length-1)
c = @text[@current]
@current += 1
c = c.chr
return c if (c >= " " || c == "\n" || c.unpack("c") == JSMin::EOF)
return "\n" if (c == "\r")
return " "
end
# Get the next character without getting it.
def peek
lookaheadChar = @text[@current]
return lookaheadChar.chr
end
# mynext -- get the next character, excluding comments.
# peek() is used to see if a '/' is followed by a '/' or '*'.
def mynext
c = get
if (c == "/")
if(peek == "/")
while(true)
c = get
if (c <= "\n")
return c
end
end
end
if(peek == "*")
get
while(true)
case get
when "*"
if (peek == "/")
get
return " "
end
when JSMin::EOF
raise "Unterminated comment"
end
end
end
end
return c
end
# action -- do something! What you do is determined by the argument: 1
# Output A. Copy B to A. Get the next B. 2 Copy B to A. Get the next B.
# (Delete A). 3 Get the next B. (Delete B). action treats a string as a
# single character. Wow! action recognizes a regular expression if it is
# preceded by ( or , or =.
def action(a)
if(a==1)
@output << @theA
end
if(a==1 || a==2)
@theA = @theB
if (@theA == "\'" || @theA == "\"")
while (true)
@output << @theA
@theA = get
break if (@theA == @theB)
raise "Unterminated string literal" if (@theA <= "\n")
if (@theA == "\\")
@output << @theA
@theA = get
end
end
end
end
if(a==1 || a==2 || a==3)
@theB = mynext
if (@theB == "/" && (@theA == "(" || @theA == "," || @theA == "=" ||
@theA == ":" || @theA == "[" || @theA == "!" ||
@theA == "&" || @theA == "|" || @theA == "?" ||
@theA == "{" || @theA == "}" || @theA == ";" ||
@theA == "\n"))
@output << @theA
@output << @theB
while (true)
@theA = get
if (@theA == "/")
break
elsif (@theA == "\\")
@output << @theA
@theA = get
elsif (@theA <= "\n")
raise "Unterminated RegExp Literal" + @output
end
@output << @theA
end
@theB = mynext
end
end
end
end

Thanks for this implementation as a library. Exactly what I needed. You might want to post this code as a file somewhere as copying and pasting from the codebox directly makes a mess because the HTML translation has replaced all the single quotes with right and left single quotes.
Also the original code with license is at http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.rb