Ruby-BBcode-to-MD
This gem converts BBcode to Markdown. BBcode is parsed before conversion, checking whether the BBcode is valid.
The parser recognizes most "official tags":http://www.bbcode.org/reference.php and allows to easily extend this set with custom tags by editing tags.rb.
Example
"This is [b]bold[/b] and this is [i]italic[/i].".bbcode_to_md=>
This is **bold** and this is *italic*.Installation
Add this to your Rails app's Gemfile
gem 'ruby-bbcode-to-md'
or use the repo link
gem 'ruby-bbcode-to-md', :git => git://github.com/rikkit/ruby-bbcode-to-md.git
Then run
bundle install
And the gem is available in your application
Note: Do not forget to restart your server!
Development
Known issues
- The parser doesn't handle nested quotes correctly.
Testing
Run
bundle install
bundle exec rake test
in the source directory to run the unit tests. Edit ruby_bbcode_test.rb to add tests.
Acknowledgements
Code is based on BBcode to HTML gem by Maarten Bezemer: http://github.com/veger/ruby-bbcode.git
Some of the ideas and the tests came from "bb-ruby":http://github.com/cpjolicoeur/bb-ruby of Craig P Jolicoeur
Licence
MIT Licence. See the included MIT-LICENCE file.