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

  • 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.

  • 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!

    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

    https://writewithharper.com

  • Nice work Adrian.

    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/“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?