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About RedCloth

RedCloth is a module for using Textile in Ruby. Textile is a simple text format that can be converted to HTML. It’s used on wikis, blogging engines, bug trackers, this site—pretty much everywhere.

textile	to	html
_emphasized_	→	emphasized
*strong*	→	strong
"Ruby on Rails":http://www.rubyonrails.org	→	Ruby on Rails
* one * another	→	one another
# one # two	→	one two

Installing

RedCloth 4.0 has not yet been released. It is in the pre-release testing stages. Try it out with:

$ gem install RedCloth --source http://code.whytheluckystiff.net

Bugs and contributions

Bug tracking is on Lighthouse Please only report bugs about RedCloth 4.0. The 3.0.4 version’s bugs are many and well-known

If you have a change you would like to contribute:

1. fork on GitHub
2. git clone your fork
3. add tests to show how the expected behavior is not occurring
4. write code until the tests pass
5. send a pull request on GitHub