# ClothRed use / interest in successor?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clothred-use-interest-in-successor/180690>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 26, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clothred-use-interest-in-successor/180690 "2009-12-26T00:55:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phillip\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Phillip\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phillip_G)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/clothred-use-interest-in-successor/180690/1 "2009-12-26T00:55:49Z")

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Season’s greetings!

While catching up with the world of Ruby and software development in  
general, I’ve noticed that my age-old ClothRed gem has a number of  
downloads, meaning that there is certainly an interest in it.

So, my questions are:

Would the community appreciate a HTML-to-Textile library (useful to  
clean user input, eventually)?

Since there is (atl east some) useage of the gem, I can’t just pull the  
rug from under the existing userbase (small as it is), so I’d instead  
work on ClothRed 2. 😉

(Mind, this is _not_ an announcement about a possible ClothRed 2  
release! I’m merely enetertaining the possibility to get back into the  
swing of things. :))

Cheers,