SimpleMarkup is dead. Long live MarkDown (and Textile).
If you use RDoc, than you’re probably familiar with it’s markup, known as SimpleMarkup. If you’ve been using RDoc for a while, you are also probably aware that SimpleMarkup is horribly broken, when it comes to handling odd formatting.
Besides the usual formatting mistakes that can easily crash SimpleMarkup, I and other users began noticing odd [...]
Introducing static_paths 0.1.0
Update: Documentation has now been posted on static-paths.rubyforge.org.
When writing a library which bundles static-content in a directory named data/ or static/, you usually need to find the directory using something like File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),’..’,’..’,’..’,’..’,’static)).
But then you want to allow plugins to extend the functionality of your library, and even add their own static-content. Now you have to [...]
