BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of John Gruber's
Markdown[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/], a text-to-HTML
conversion tool for web writers. To quote from the project page: Markdown allows
you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then
convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

It borrows a naming convention and several helpings of interface from
{Redcloth}[http://redcloth.org/], Why the Lucky Stiff's processor for a similar
text-to-HTML conversion syntax called
Textile[http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/].

BlueCloth 2 is a complete rewrite using David Parsons'
Discount[http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discou…] library, a C
implementation of Markdown. I rewrote it using the extension for speed and
accuracy; the original BlueCloth was a straight port from the Perl version that
I wrote in a few days for my own use just to avoid having to shell out to
Markdown.pl, and it was quite buggy and slow. I apologize to all the good people
that sent me patches for it that were never released.

Note that the new gem is called 'bluecloth' and the old one 'BlueCloth'. If you
have both installed, you can ensure you're loading the new one with the 'gem'
directive:


'BlueCloth' require 'bluecloth'

• Pavel Skrylev

• bluecloth
• gem-bluecloth
• gem-bluecloth-debuginfo
• gem-bluecloth-devel
• gem-bluecloth-doc