Anybody use Red|Blue Cloth?

Rails
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Does anybody use and prefer Redcloth (or bluecloth, which appears to be
alpha)? Does it affect performance much? Is there a way to get it to
automatically process templates without having to call textilize?

Thanks,
Joe

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Joe - I use redcloth all the time for my projects. It gives my users
and easy way to mark up my documents / comments (my site, AreYouHiring
http://www.areyouhiring.com) without having to worry about HTML. In
fact, it seems safer - I can filter out pure html from the content by
using “h”, and then render what’s left via RedCloth.

I don’t see performance issues yet, but I plan to implement caching to
cover that.

I simple do something like this in a helper:

RedCloth.new(body).to_html to render my text.
Hope this helps somewhat.

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Joe wrote:

Does anybody use and prefer Redcloth (or bluecloth, which appears to be
alpha)? Does it affect performance much? Is there a way to get it to
automatically process templates without having to call textilize?

I use RedCloth–which is more flexible. Overhead is negligible. As to
auto formatting, not really–unless you want to store the processed
version of your text in the database.

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I like Bluecloth myself simply because I prefer the Markdown syntax. I
have
been using it as part of Typo and it works well, I have not encountered
any
issues thus far.

5

Tangent to this topic – has anyone found a good pattern to using
truncate
and textilize together? Perhaps have written a
smart_truncate_and_textilize
helper? Calling truncate after the textilize leaves the possibility of
unclosed or interrupted HTML tags, running truncate prior to textilize
can
result in textile markup being rendered.

Thanks!

6

Is there a way to use RedCloth in a controller? I can get it to work
fine in views. Something like:

def view
RedCloth.new(response).to_html
end

Joe

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On 3/7/06, D. Taylor S. [email protected] wrote:

Tangent to this topic – has anyone found a good pattern to using truncate
and textilize together? Perhaps have written a smart_truncate_and_textilize
helper? Calling truncate after the textilize leaves the possibility of
unclosed or interrupted HTML tags, running truncate prior to textilize can
result in textile markup being rendered.

Thanks!

I use close_open_html(truncate(markdown(the_text), 200)) with the
close_open_html routine found here:
http://blog.ideoplex.com/2005/03/17.html. I renamed “sanitize” to
“close_open_html” because I thought that it was more descriptive.

Sincerely,

Tom L.
http://AllTom.com/
http://GadgetLife.org/