# RedCloth Mini-Cookbook: How Tos, Recipes, F. A.Qs – Using the Ruby Plain Text to Web Markup Gem

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**Created:** [August 16, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-mini-cookbook-how-tos-recipes-f-a-qs-a-using-the-ruby-plain-text-to-web-markup-gem/146026 "2008-08-16T08:33:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerald\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@gerald\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gerald_b)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-mini-cookbook-how-tos-recipes-f-a-qs-a-using-the-ruby-plain-text-to-web-markup-gem/146026/1 "2008-08-16T08:33:48Z")

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Hello,

I’ve started a RedCloth mini cookbook collecting how-tos, recipes and  
F.A.Qs.

What’s RedCloth? What’s Textile?

Textile is a wiki-style markup language that’s easy-to-write and  
easy-to-read and that lets you author web pages in plain text.  
RedCloth is the Ruby gem that lets you use Textile in Ruby.

How-tos in the mini cookbook so far include:

o How to use the redcloth command line tool  
o How to turn off/disable hard line breaks  
o How to turn off span caps  
o How to extend Textile with your own rules  
o How to extend Textile with your own tags  
o How to find out more (References)

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More @ http://rubybook.ca/2008/08/16/redcloth

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Cheers.

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**Author:** ![gerald\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@gerald\_b](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gerald_b)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/redcloth-mini-cookbook-how-tos-recipes-f-a-qs-a-using-the-ruby-plain-text-to-web-markup-gem/146026/2 "2008-08-16T20:14:45Z")

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Gerald B. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I’ve started a RedCloth mini cookbook collecting how-tos, recipes and  
> F.A.Qs.
> 
> What’s RedCloth? What’s Textile?

Thanks for sharing. Just a comment: I noticed you have “comments closed”  
in your blog, I think it would be useful to turn them on (my two cents  
:).

Greets!

P.S.: Nice Wordpress Theme… I use it my self 😃

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