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

by adrianthedevon 2/3/2025, 12:53 PMwith 28 comments

by shafyyon 2/6/2025, 12:31 PM

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.

by xutopiaon 2/6/2025, 3:52 PM

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.

by Bergrebellon 2/6/2025, 10:35 AM

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.

by adrianthedevon 2/6/2025, 6:33 PM

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

by chilipepperhotton 2/6/2025, 11:28 PM

Huh. It would be cool to get Harper integrated into this

https://writewithharper.com

by Lioon 2/5/2025, 9:39 AM

Nice work Adrian.

Out of interest are there any plans to support embedding Mermaid diagrams in the same way as Github supports?

by sscarduzioon 2/3/2025, 5:46 PM

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

by briandearon 2/6/2025, 12:30 PM

Do normal people use Markdown? Or is it a dev/“techie” thing?

by timscoon 2/6/2025, 3:49 PM

Thank you so much for this.

by Merovexon 2/10/2025, 8:11 AM

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

by sagasu007on 2/6/2025, 6:49 AM

look good ~

by downrightmikeon 2/6/2025, 4:03 PM

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