This gem converts BBcode to Markdown. BBcode is parsed before conversion, checking whether the BBcode is valid.

The parser recognizes most "official tags":http://www.bbcode.org/reference.php and allows to easily extend this set with custom tags by editing tags.rb.

"This is [b]bold[/b] and this is [i]italic[/i].".bbcode_to_html

=>

This is **bold** and this is *italic*.

Add this to your Rails app's Gemfile

gem 'ruby-bbcode-to-md'

or use the repo link

gem 'ruby-bbcode-to-md', :git => git://github.com/rikkit/ruby-bbcode-to-md.git

Then run

bundle install

And the gem is available in your application

Note: Do not forget to restart your server!

• The parser doesn't handle nested quotes correctly.

Run

bundle install
bundle exec rake test

in the source directory to run the unit tests. Edit ruby_bbcode_test.rb to add tests.

Code is based on BBcode to HTML gem by Maarten Bezemer: http://github.com/veger/ruby-bbcode.git

Some of the ideas and the tests came from "bb-ruby":http://github.com/cpjolicoeur/bb-ruby of Craig P Jolicoeur

MIT Licence. See the included MIT-LICENCE file.