Articles tagged 'markdown'

  • Writing your blog posts in Markdown with Postmarkdown

    February 3, 2012


    This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on February 3, 2012.


    Another thing we added to our new site, uploaded back at the end of December, was the ability to write our blog posts in Markdown, which is a text-to-html tool that allows you to write formatted text without actually having to write all the corresponding HTML. Markdown is used for the project wiki pages on GitHub, and can also be used for the project’s readme file.

    Most of the time, I don’t like that HTML gets autogenerated for me, since I usually don’t get the results I want. We used to have the site (which was really the blog only) in WordPress, and I never used the autogenerated HTML. In fact, it was quite the opposite: I wrote every blog post in plain…

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  • Migrating your blog posts to Markdown with Upmark and Nokogiri

    February 3, 2012


    This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on February 3, 2012.


    As I said in my last post, for our new site, we changed our blog engine from WordPress to the Postmarkdown gem. At the end of that post, I mentioned that we had to migrate the old posts from WordPress to Markdown.

    To do this, we built a ruby script using the Upmark gem and the Nokogiri gem. Nokogiri is used for HTML and XML parsing, among other things, while Upmark is used to generate Markdown from a given HTML.

    First, we exported our old blog posts from WordPress to an XML file that looks like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <!-- This is a WordPress eXtended RSS file generated by WordPress as an export of your site. -->
    <!-- ... -->
    <rss

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