How can I automatically render partials using markdown in Rails 3?

Question

I want to have some of my partials as markdown snippets. What is the easiest way to render them using the standard rails erb templating?

Ideally, I\'d like to do so

Answer 1

I just released a markdown-rails gem, which handles .html.md views.

You cannot chain it with Erb though -- it's only for static views and partials. To embed Ruby code, you'd have to use tjwallace's solution with :markdown.

Answer 2

Not a pure markdown solution but you can use HAML filters to render markdown, as well as other markup languages.

For example, in app/views/_my_partial.html.haml:

:markdown
  My awesome view
  ===============

  Look, I can **use** #{language}!