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Lead Time Experiment: Calculating Lead Time of the whole process

As you might have noticed, we have been testing new methodologies on our projects in order to improve them and be more agile. We started using Monte Carlo Simulation (Forecasting software project’s completion date through Monte Carlo Simulation), limiting the WIP of our process (Case Study of a WIP Limit Implementation: Why, When and How … »

markdown-rails: Markdown for your views and partials

February 23, 2012

In my Rails apps, I have a lot of static prose, and that prose tends to be written in HTML. As a result, it’s cumbersome to edit.

Markdown would be much better suited for prose. However, Rails does not support .html.md views out of the box.

As described by @tjwallace, there is a simple workaround – use HAML’s :markdown filter:

:markdown
  **Markdown** goes here.

  The time is #{Time.now}.

Still, this leaves your Markdown files indented. I thought there is no reason why Rails shouldn’t support plain .html.md files.

So I wrote up a simple markdown-rails gem. Check it out:

https://github.com/joliss/markdown-rails

One shortcoming is, it doesn’t support embedded Ruby code (like HAML’s :markdown filter with #{exp}). I’d love to add this at some point, but I’m not sure about the best approach. See the comments and the Limitations section in the README.

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