Not Ruby or Rails, but a technology all the cool coders know: Markdown. Try a tutorial! #rgsfl
Don't use this ugly Heroku app URL! Check out www.markdowntutorial.com instead. Markdown is a way to write content for the web. It's written in what nerds like to call "plaintext," which is exactly the sort of text you're used to writing and seeing. Plaintext is just the regular alphabet, with a few familiar symbols, like asterisks ( * ) and backticks ( ` ). Unlike cumbersome word processing applications, text written in Markdown can be easily shared between computers, mobile phones, and people. It's quickly becoming the writing standard for academics , scientists , writers , and many more. Websites like GitHub and reddit use Markdown to style their comments. Formatting text in Markdown has a very gentle learning curve. It doesn't do anything fancy like change the font size, color, or type. All you have control over is the display of the text—stuff like making things bold,...