Blogdown

Features

  • syntax highlighting
  • easy to use

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'blogdown'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install blogdown

What it does

This gem converts markdown files to html files

Usage

Create a directory for your project

mkdir blogdown

Inside your freshly created folder create another folder "posts"

cd blogdown
mkdir posts

Now, put all your markdown files inside this "posts" folder, remember to use the .md extendion eg. hello.md

If you are done, and wish to build your html, for your rich text editor, navigate to your project root directory (our case 1blogdown`), And Run

blogdown build

A new directory "output" will be created and the respective output files(html) will be inside the folder

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/blogdown/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request