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Show HN: Marksmith – a GitHub-style Markdown editor for Ruby on Rails

by adrianthedev on 2/3/25, 12:53 PM with 28 comments

  • by shafyy on 2/6/25, 12:31 PM

    This looks great! I'd also love a non-Markdown view for less technical folks. Or can you write in the "preview mode"?

    I read that 37signals will also spin-off the markdown editor they built for Writebook (https://once.com/writebook), so nice to have different options.

  • by xutopia on 2/6/25, 3:52 PM

    The Ruby world is feeling a revival for the last year. More and more people using it and lots of new libraries coming out or being updated.
  • by Bergrebell on 2/6/25, 10:35 AM

    avo is just great! we have used it in 3 projects by now and couldn’t be happier with the product and community!

    nice to see that they are starting to push the whole ecosystem.

  • by adrianthedev on 2/6/25, 6:33 PM

    So awesome to see this on the first page. Thanks everyone!
  • by chilipepperhott on 2/6/25, 11:28 PM

    Huh. It would be cool to get Harper integrated into this

    https://writewithharper.com

  • by Lio on 2/5/25, 9:39 AM

    Nice work Adrian.

    Out of interest are there any plans to support embedding Mermaid diagrams in the same way as Github supports?

  • by sscarduzio on 2/3/25, 5:46 PM

    This is exactly what I needed, but I need JS or Python backend. Any chance to make it work?
  • by briandear on 2/6/25, 12:30 PM

    Do normal people use Markdown? Or is it a dev/“techie” thing?
  • by timsco on 2/6/25, 3:49 PM

    Thank you so much for this.
  • by Merovex on 2/10/25, 8:11 AM

    DHH has said that Markdown editing will be a feature in 8.1. Also, Marksmith requires the use of ViewComponent, which is non-standard.
  • by sagasu007 on 2/6/25, 6:49 AM

    look good ~
  • by downrightmike on 2/6/25, 4:03 PM

    We are in 2025, can we please start using dark mode as the default on websites?