Rediscovering Markdown
I remember in 2006, when I started to really get into Ruby, that I would peruse RubyForge looking for a handy library to make some of my mundane tasks more interesting. I wasn't concerned so much about efficiency as I was with trying something new that would further my interest in my new joy for the language. I found two plain text => html libraries that I really liked: textile and markdown. If I remember correctly, I chose textile for interpreting text from a textarea so that I could … More »