Acts As Blog

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. This model uses two fields, one to store the raw post (this way you can edit it later) and the other to store the transformed text. This also keeps you from having to do it on the fly each time the post is accessed. This creates a pretty good speedup for some applications. You can pass in any of the available filters for each of the markup styles.

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example of posts model class Post < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_blog

#Here is an example of the comments model. class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base

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

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

gem install RedCloth gem install BlueCloth gem install RubyPants

author: Charlie Bowman summary: Simple Markup for you Blog. homepage: http://www.recentrambles.com.com plugin: http://svn.recentrambles.com/plugins/acts_as_blog license: MIT