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I’d like to now how to handle multiple markup languages (textile, markdown and bbcode) in a text area using ruby on rails 3.
The user would be able to select the markup language he/she wants to use, write in that language, and then the view would render the text using the markup language selected by the user.
I’m currently handling that storing a field for each text area, but I’m sure there are better ways and I’d love to hear your opinions and come up with a better way.
When are you processing the markup the user enters? Are they ever going to need to re-retrieve it?
I’d do this by having three attributes on my model:
original_text,markup_language(which is either textile, markdown, or bbcode), andrendered_text. When the user hit save, I’d save the text and use the value they provided formarkup_languageto figure out what renderer to use to store it intorendered_text.