[HN Gopher] Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails
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       Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails
        
       Author : amalinovic
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2025-12-10 12:50 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | Surac wrote:
       | So normally I would say markdown does not need a special editor.
       | It is ascii in its heart. I understand the wish to render the
       | markdown as a rich text. I use obsidian and its editor also
       | offers such a hybrid mode. After using it for 1 month I switched
       | to the explicit text mode and only use the rich mode if I like to
       | present something to other people. Perhaps such a way could also
       | benefit your editor?
        
       | loloquwowndueo wrote:
       | I just put easymde on the text area.
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       | https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor
        
       | realty_geek wrote:
       | Nice - I learnt something from that!
       | 
       | I always wondered why rails didn't produce a competitor to
       | WordPress. It just hasn't excelled in content management.
       | 
       | I have an open source real estate website builder called
       | propertywebbuilder which I am working on reviving and even with
       | the help of Claude code the content management part of it is
       | proving to be the most painful.
        
         | fny wrote:
         | There were a bunch. Radiant CMS, Refinery, Locomotive, and
         | others.
         | 
         | Three problems (1) PHP is deployed all over cheap shared
         | hosting providers (2) no one who uses a CMS cares about the
         | backend (3) Wordpress has massive ecosystem
        
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