reverse_markdown vs CommonMarker

reverse_markdown

Ruby gem to convert html into markdown (by xijo)

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CommonMarker

Ruby wrapper for the comrak (CommonMark parser) Rust crate (by gjtorikian)

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reverse_markdown		CommonMarker
	Project
-	Mentions	2
618	Stars	405
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	8.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License	License	MIT License

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reverse_markdown

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

CommonMarker

Posts with mentions or reviews of CommonMarker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-11.

Magnus 0.5 released (Library for writing Ruby gems in Rust)
10 projects | /r/ruby | 11 Feb 2023

commonmarker (as of 1.0.0.pre)
#GopherDiggingRuby: Make a dev.to link fetcher in Ruby
1 project | dev.to | 17 Jan 2022

And it turns out that there's a popular Ruby Gem that lets us parse a Markdown file and then walk over its nodes (nodes as in text, links, images, etc): CommonMarker! To get it, first run bundle init to create a Gemfile, then in the Gemfile, add the line

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reverse_markdown and CommonMarker you can also consider the following projects:

kramdown - kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

Redcarpet - The safe Markdown parser, reloaded.

Tocer - A command line interface for generating Markdown table of contents.

word-to-markdown - A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents

Maruku - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter (Official Repo).

markdown_exec - Interactively select and execute fenced code blocks in markdown files. Build complex scripts by naming and requiring blocks. Log resulting scripts and output. Re-run scripts.