mcbean version 0.4.0 has been released!
* http://github.com/flavorjones/mcbean
* http://mcbean.heroku.com/doc/index.html (rdocs)
* http://mcbean.heroku.com (live demo!)
McBean can convert documents from one format to another. McBean currently
supports:
* HTML
* Markdown (a subset)
* Textile (a subset)
* Creole (a subset)
with the help of Loofah, Nokogiri, RDiscount, RedCloth and Creole.
"You can't teach a Sneetch." -- Sylvester McMonkey McBean
== Changes
## 0.4.0 (2010-09-30)
Features:
* Support for Creole (a wiki format)
== Features
* Transforms HTML into Markdown
* Transforms HTML into Textile
* Transforms HTML into Creole
* Textile <-> Markdown, Textile <-> Creole, Creole <-> Markdown (thanks to
RDiscount, RedCloth and Creole)
* Emitted HTML is sanitized (thanks to Loofah).
* Fancy-pants command line utility, "mcbean".
== Problems
* Only supports a limited subset of Markdown, Textile and Creole. Patches
welcome.
== Synopsis
=== Short version
To convert HTML into Markdown, for example:
McBean.fragment(html).to_markdown
Or get fancy and convert Textile into Markdown:
McBean.textile(textile).to_markdown
=== Longer version
Create a McBean from your string, using the appropriate constructor:
mcbean = McBean.fragment your_html_fragment
or
mcbean = McBean.document your_html_document
or
mcbean = McBean.markdown your_markdown
or
mcbean = McBean.textile your_textile
or
mcbean = McBean.creole your_creole
And then generate the desired markup format:
mcbean.to_html
mcbean.to_markdown
mcbean.to_textile
mcbean.to_creole
=== Command Line
Also, +mcbean+ provides a command-line utility installed into your gem path:
$ mcbean --html="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories" --to-markdown
$ mcbean --markdown="treetop-1.4.2/doc/grammar_composition.markdown"
--to-textile
You can try out McBean at the live demo site: http://mcbean.heroku.com