Ardown is a very simple implementation of Markdown. It supports minimal syntax and formatting, but it works for documents I write. Due to its minimal functionality, it is also quite fast.
Ardown is a hobby project and should probably not be used in production environments.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ardown'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install ardown
The gem contains an executable so you can use it from the command line:
$ ardown path/to/document.md > document.html
In your Ruby project, you can create a new Document and convert it to HTML:
require 'ardown'
Ardown::Document.new('## Heading 2').to_html # => "<h2>Heading 2</h2>\n"
Since Ardown parses Markdown into an AST that is then rendered as HTML, it should be trivial to extend it to support other output formats.
- Fork it (https://github.com/avdgaag/ardown/fork)
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request
Created by: Arjan van der Gaag
URL: http://arjanvandergaag.nl
Project homepage: http://avdgaag.github.com/ardown
Date: July 2014
License: MIT-license (same as Ruby)