# Markdown/Textile shootout

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markdown-textile-shootout/88455>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 11, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markdown-textile-shootout/88455 "2007-03-11T12:45:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![revlob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@revlob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/revlob)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 12:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markdown-textile-shootout/88455/1 "2007-03-11T12:45:58Z")

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There seem to be a number of simple text-formatting modules available  
for Ruby, including RedCloth, BlueCloth, SuperRedCloth, and Maruku. It  
seems that the latest release of RedCloth is simply unusable  
(:filter\_html doesn’t work at all), and the project has been abandoned  
in favour of SuperRedCloth, which is still heavily under development.

Does anyone have any opinions of any other Markdown/Textile modules,  
which are stable and provide useful fucntions like filter rules?