Acts As Blog plugin

Plugin details

Here is a simple plugin to allow you to allow the use of RedCloth,BlueCloth, or SmartyPants in your blog.

It's super simple to use. It will take your blog post or comment and transform it into html.

This allows you to write in a much simpler syntax and allows your users to post valid html into their comment.

It also allows you to block all html tags that weren't created using the markup.

Websitehttp://www.recentrambles.com/pragmatic/view/63 Repositoryhttp://svn.recentrambles.com/plugins/acts_as_blog Author Charlie Bowman Tags RedCloth, Textile LicenseMIT

Documentation

Install the plugin: 
ruby script/plugin install http://svn.recentrambles.com/plugins/acts_as_blog

example of posts model 

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_blog
  
  ## before we save, we need to transform the markup into html
  before_save :transform_post
  has_many  :comments

  # we need to keep the posts table in good shape!
  validates_presence_of   :date, :raw_post, :title, :category, :description
  
  ## transform the text into valid html
  def transform_post
    self.post = Post.convert_to_html(self.raw_post, 'textile')
  end



Here is an example of the comments model. 

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base

  acts_as_blog

  belongs_to :post
  before_save :transform_comment


  ## validation checks
  validates_presence_of :name, :raw_comment

  ## we filter out all html tags except those created by the markup
  def transform_comment
    self.comment = Comment.convert_to_html(self.raw_comment,'textile',[:filter_html])
  end



The available markup style are markdown,textile,smartypants. To run the method, you just need to pass the raw text,markup style, and then any filters you need to use. It will return the valid html from your raw text. Just remember, to use one of the markup styles, they need to be installed 

gem install RedCloth
gem install BlueCloth  
gem install RubyPants

Further Documentation

There is currently no advanced documentation for this plugin.

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