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

This looks great! I&#x27;d also love a non-Markdown view for less technical folks. Or can you write in the &quot;preview mode&quot;?<p>I read that 37signals will also spin-off the markdown editor they built for Writebook (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;once.com&#x2F;writebook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;once.com&#x2F;writebook</a>), so nice to have different options.

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.

avo is just great! we have used it in 3 projects by now and couldn’t be happier with the product and community!<p>nice to see that they are starting to push the whole ecosystem.

So awesome to see this on the first page. Thanks everyone!

Huh. It would be cool to get Harper integrated into this<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writewithharper.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writewithharper.com</a>

Nice work Adrian.<p>Out of interest are there any plans to support embedding Mermaid diagrams in the same way as Github supports?

This is exactly what I needed, but I need JS or Python backend. Any chance to make it work?

Do normal people use Markdown? Or is it a dev&#x2F;“techie” thing?

Thank you so much for this.

DHH has said that Markdown editing will be a feature in 8.1. Also, Marksmith requires the use of ViewComponent, which is non-standard.

look good ~

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