Excellent idea, I didn't even think about that. It's pretty awesome to  
think that I essentially now have library support from two separate  
and thriving communities.

Jordan Fowler
(619) 339-6752

On Aug 26, 2009, at 12:57 AM, Matt Aimonetti <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> I believe maruku is pure ruby and works with jruby. If you care  
> about performance, you might want to use a java/markdown library, it  
> will be better than a pure ruby lib on top of jruby or a C lib using  
> FFI.
>
> - Matt
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Jordan Fowler  
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there is a Markdown implementation out there that
> *is not* a C-extension? I am trying to port a rails app over to JRuby
> to eventually distribute it in a WAR file and need Markdown support in
> the app. So far I've had no luck finding an alternative.
>
> If nothing exists, we should write a ruby-implementation agnostic
> version of something like RDiscount or PEGMarkdown, I think I'd use
> FFI (http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi); has anyone worked with this at
> all?
>
> Cheers,
> Jordan
>
>
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