You [Gerald Bauer¹] have been permanently banned [for life] from participating in r/ruby (because of your writing off / outside of r/ruby). I do not see your participation adding anything to this [ruby] community.

-- Richard Schneeman (r/ruby mod and fanatic illiberal ultra leftie on a cancel culture mission)

¹: I know. Who cares? Who is this Gerald Bauer anyway. A random nobody for sure. It just happens that I am the admin among other things of Planet Ruby.

Case Studies of Code of Conduct "Cancel Culture" Out-Of-Control Power Abuse - Ruby - A Call for Tolerance On Ruby-Talk Results In Ban On Reddit Ruby

Update (August, 2022) - A Call for More Tolerance And Call For No-Ban Policy Results In Ban On Ruby-Talk (With No Reason Given) 

>  I just banned gerald.bauer@gmail.com.
>
>  -- SHIBATA Hiroshi
>
>> THANK YOU
>> 
>>  -- Ryan Davis
>>
>>
>> My full support to moderators.
>>
>> -- Xavier Noria
>> 
>> My full support to moderators.
>>
>>  -- Carlo E. Prelz
>>
>>  That's fun.
>>
>>  -- Alice

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The Future of Writing Structured Documents in Plain Text with “Lite” Markup Formatting Conventions in Markdown for Paragraphs, Headings, Bullet Lists, Numbered Lists, Code Blocks, Links and Much More

kramdown library and command line tool - Turn Easy-To-Read and Easy-To-Write (Structured) Plain Text with “Lite” Markup Formatting Conventions in Markdown into Web Pages or LaTeX Typesetting Documents

github: gettalong/kramdown, rubygems: kramdown, rdoc: kramdown

What’s Markdown?

Markdown is an easy-to-write and easy-to-read “lite” markup language in plain text using formatting conventions - used in email since the last century, for example - for structured documents with paragraphs, headings, bullet lists, numbered lists, code block, links and much more that you can convert “loss-less” to hypertext web pages, tex typesetting documents and many other formats.

Example:

## What's `football.db`?

A free and open public domain football database & schema
for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain datasets). Example:

    ### Teams

    barcelona, Barcelona|FC Barcelona|Fútbol Club Barcelona, BAR
    madrid,    Real Madrid|Real Madrid CF,                   RMD
    ...

becomes (converted to HTML):

<h2>What's <code>football.db</code>?</h2>

<p>A free and open public domain football database &amp; schema
for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain datasets). Example:</p>

<pre><code>
### Teams

barcelona, Barcelona|FC Barcelona|Fútbol Club Barcelona, BAR
madrid,    Real Madrid|Real Madrid CF,                   RMD
...
</code></pre>

and becomes (converted to LaTeX):

\subsection{What's \texttt{football.db}?}

A free and open public domain football database \& schema
for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain datasets). Example:

\begin{verbatim}### Teams

barcelona, Barcelona|FC Barcelona|Fútbol Club Barcelona, BAR
madrid,    Real Madrid|Real Madrid CF,                   RMD
...
\end{verbatim}

What’s Kramdown?

Kramdown is a library and command line tool that lets you convert plain text with formatting conventions in markdown (.md, .mkdwn, .markdown) to hypertext (.html), latex (.html) or unix manpages too. Thanks to Thomas Leitner gettalong for publishing more than 50+ releases since 2009 - leading to today’s version 1.16+ and more than 10 million downloads.

Usage

Converting your plain text markup to hypertext using kramdown is as easy as:

Kramdown::Document.new( '¡Barça, Barça, Baaarça!' ).to_html

# => "<p>¡Barça, Barça, Baaarça!</p>\n"

and to latex as easy as:

Kramdown::Document.new( '¡Barça, Barça, Baaarça!' ).to_latex

# => "<p>¡Barça, Barça, Baaarça!\n\n"

Let’s create another static site generator in five minutes

First lets create a new script and let’s add the kramdown library plus the find standard library module to help us with finding files. Example:

./sitegen.rb:

require 'kramdown'
require 'find'

Next let’s make a _site output folder.

SITE_PATH = './_site'

Dir.mkdir( SITE_PATH ) unless File.exist?( SITE_PATH )

Now let’s add a markdown converter helper method.

def markdown( text )
  Kramdown::Document.new( text ).to_html
end

Finally, to wrap up let’s loop over all files in the current working folder, that is, . and generate hypertext (.html) documents in the ./site folder from the markdown (.md) source documents.

Find.find('.') do |path|
  if File.extname(path) == '.md'              # e.g. ./index.md => .md
    basename = File.basename(path, '.md')     # e.g. ./index.md => index

    File.open( "#{SITE_PATH}/#{basename}.html", 'w') do |file|
      file.write markdown( File.read( path ) )
    end
  end
end

That’s it. Create a new markdown file. Example - index.md:

## What's `football.db`?

A free and open public domain football database & schema
for use in any (programming) language (e.g. uses plain datasets). Example:

    ### Teams

    barcelona, Barcelona|FC Barcelona|Fútbol Club Barcelona, BAR
    madrid,    Real Madrid|Real Madrid CF,                   RMD
    ...

Run the static site generation machinery e.g. type:

$ ruby ./sitegen.rb

That’s it. Open up the web page ./_site/index.html in your browser.

Bonus: kramdown Command Line Tool

Note: The kramdown library ships with a command line tool named - suprise, suprise - kramdown. Type in your shell:

$ kramdown -h

resulting in:

Command line options:

    -i, --input ARG
          Specify the input format: kramdown, github flavored markdown (GFM) or markdown
    -o, --output ARG
          Specify one or more output formats: html or latex
    -v, --version
          Show the version of kramdown
    -h, --help
          Show the help

kramdown options:

        --template ARG
          The name of an ERB template file that should be used to wrap the output
          or the ERB template itself.

        --[no-]auto-ids
          Use automatic header ID generation

        --[no-]auto-id-stripping
          Strip all formatting from header text for automatic ID generation

        --auto-id-prefix ARG
          Prefix used for automatically generated header IDs

        --[no-]transliterated-header-ids
          Transliterate the header text before generating the ID

        --[no-]parse-block-html
          Process kramdown syntax in block HTML tags

        --[no-]parse-span-html
          Process kramdown syntax in span HTML tags

        --link-defs ARG
          Pre-defines link definitions

        --footnote-nr ARG
          The number of the first footnote

        --toc-levels ARG
          Defines the levels that are used for the table of contents

        --line-width ARG
          Defines the line width to be used when outputting a document

        --latex-headers ARG
          Defines the LaTeX commands for different header levels

        --smart-quotes ARG
          Defines the HTML entity names or code points for smart quote output

        --header-offset ARG
          Sets the output offset for headers

        --[no-]hard-wrap
          Interprets line breaks literally

        --syntax-highlighter ARG
          Set the syntax highlighter

        --syntax-highlighter-opts ARG
          Set the syntax highlighter options

        --math-engine ARG
          Set the math engine

        --math-engine-opts ARG
          Set the math engine options

Yes, it’s well documented - help output shortened :-). Welcome to the wonders of kramdown and the future of writing structured documents in plain text with markup formatting conventions in markdown.

More kramdown goodies. See the Awesome Kramdown collection / page.

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