kramdown
kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions. (by gettalong)
Redcarpet
The safe Markdown parser, reloaded. (by vmg)
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| kramdown | Redcarpet | |
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| 4 | 6 | |
| 1,701 | 4,946 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 10 days ago | 16 days ago | |
| Ruby | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kramdown
Posts with mentions or reviews of kramdown.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-13.
- Have Markdown lists be able to start at an arbitrary number
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Add a table of contents (TOC) to your blog posts
The Kramdown markdown parser-converter that is used by Jekyll, has the ability to generate a TOC. If all is want is a TOC, it does the job.
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VS Code Markdown Preview + GH Pages?
Fundamentally, I'd love for my math/markdown notes to be portable, not just viewable via a markdown reader. Ideally, with as little work as possible I'd LOVE it if I could just publish my .md as Jekyll posts hosted on Github Pages. Unfortunately as far as I can tell, GH Pages used kramdown which accomodates math-mode for MathJax rather than KaTeX.
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Understand the basics of Ruby on Rails by building a blog app
Kramdown: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown
Redcarpet
Posts with mentions or reviews of Redcarpet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-03.
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Real-time previews with Rails and StimulusReflex
We will use redcarpet to parse markdown. To do so, We need to add redcarpet to our application.
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Where to start to create an editor for Rails
My point is that I would like to understand if there are some resources or advice on how to start this journey: shall I first learn how to make a gem or can I start write it in a Rails app using Turbo and Stimulus to power up a textarea that will get some markdown parsed with Redcarpet
- Redcarpet is written with sugar, spice and everything nice (most startuppy readme ever)
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Adding Markdown to your Rails application
In this guide I will show you how to add markdown to your rails application. We will use redcarpet gem and I assume that you have created your rails application that we will work on.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kramdown and Redcarpet you can also consider the following projects:
pandoc - Universal markup converter
CommonMarker - Ruby wrapper for the comrak (CommonMark parser) Rust crate
word-to-markdown - A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents
Maruku - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter (Official Repo).
Tocer - A command line interface for generating Markdown table of contents.
reverse_markdown - Ruby gem to convert html into markdown
markdown-it - Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
trix - A rich text editor for everyday writing