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markdown_fu

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This plugin will convert attributes from Markdown into html.

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README

== MarkdownFu

"Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. 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)."

Markdown was created by {John Gruber}[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/]

MarkdownFu is a Rails (ActiveRecord) plugin which will convert attributes from Markdown into html and store the result in the <tt>[attribute_name]_html</tt> attribute. You will need to define such attribute in your migrations for each markdown enabled attribute in your models.

You may define multiple markdown attributes per model and they will be inherited to subclasses using Single Table Inheritance.

== Example

class Page < ActiveRecord::Base

  # stores the html version of content into content_html
  markdown :content

  # stores html version of markdown_body into converted_body
  markdown :markdown_body, :converted_body

end

== Credits

Originally based on textilizefu[http://github.com/adelcambre/textilizefu/] by adelcambre.
Francesc Esplugas Marti - Initial implementation
Bernardo de Padua - Rewritten to support multiple markdown attributes per model and added tests.