Rails and markdown and editor

Question

Has the mark down editor been ported to a rails app? (the same one used on this SO)

What about parsing the markdown markup?

Answer 1

Most WYSIWYG editors should be pretty easy to integrate into your app without the need for Rails-specific gems/plugins. Here's an editor that supports Markdown:

http://livepipe.net/control/textarea

You could also try WYSIHAT if you don't mind putting a little work into customizing your editor:

https://github.com/37signals/wysihat

http://www.80beans.com/blog/development/2009/10/01/introducing-wysihat-engine/