Friday, May 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM

Moving Past BlueCloth

Fast Markdown libraries for Ruby: two for the price of one.

freshports.org / Sunday, November 09, 2008 at 07:40 PM

FreshPorts -- textproc/rdiscount

RDiscount, a fast Markdown library for Ruby, is now included with the FreeBSD ports collection thanks to Daniel Roethlisberger.

viget.com / Friday, October 24, 2008 at 04:00 PM

Introducing ActsAsMarkup: A Markdown, Textile, Wikitext, and RDoc Plugin for ActiveRecord

Interesting Rails plugin from Viget Labs that adds ActiveRecord attribute helpers for various humane markup languages. The markdown variation supports both rdiscount and rpegmarkdown. Cool. Not sure how I missed it when it was released in August.

wink.rubyforge.org / Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 12:16 AM

RDiscount API Documentation

An initial version of RDiscount’s API docs just published on rubyforge…

babelmark.bobtfish.net / Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 12:01 AM

Babelmark — Markdown Testbed

Compare (as in, diffs) the output of 15 different Markdown implementations. Includes every Markdown implementation I've ever come across and then some…

github.com / Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 04:10 AM

peg-markdown

An implementation of Markdown in portable ANSI C that’s roughly 28.5x faster than the canonical Perl implementation on a 179K test file. Looks like a complete implementation; includes smarty and footnote extensions.

jottit.com / Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 07:51 PM

Jottit

Aaron is at it again. This looks like the perfect web based notepad.

maruku.rubyforge.org / Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 02:02 PM

Maruku: a Markdown interpreter written in Ruby

This looks promising: handles all of Markdown proper plus various extensions.

alleged.org.uk / Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 02:00 AM

Markdown + Make vs. Microsoft Word

Hell yea..