# Bluecloth 2.0.9

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 23, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluecloth-2-0-9/195477 "2010-09-23T16:33:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bluecloth-2-0-9/195477/1 "2010-09-23T16:33:48Z")

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Version 2.0.9 of BlueCloth has been released.

BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of [Markdown][1], a text-to-HTML  
conversion tool for web writers. To quote from the project page:  
Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain  
text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

== Project Page

[dev(E)iate](http://deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth/)

== Installation

Via gems:

$ sudo gem install bluecloth

or from source:

$ wget [http://deveiate.org/code/bluecloth-2.0.9.tar.gz](http://deveiate.org/code/bluecloth-2.0.9.tar.gz)  
$ tar -xzvf bluecloth-2.0.9.tar.gz  
$ cd bluecloth-2.0.9  
$ sudo rake install

== Changes

- Updates for Ruby 1.9.2
- transcode to UTF-8 before conversion, then transcode back to the  
original  
encoding on the way out.
- Updated to Discount 1.6.8