Wikitext 1.12 released

A new version of the Wikitext gem, version 1.12, is now available. This is a maintenance release which includes a small tweak in preparation for the imminent Rails 3 final release; specifically the strings returned by the String#w and String#to_wikitext are now marked as "HTML safe" when running under Rails 3. This is a convenience which should make the move from Rails 2 to Rails 3 fairly comfortable for most Wikitext users.

There is still one outstanding issue, involving changes to the templating API in Rails 3; so expect at least one more Wikitext release before Rails 3 can be considered to be fully supported, hopefully within the next day or so.

Wikitext is a fast wikitext-to-HTML translator with a syntax very close to that used by MediaWiki. It is a Ruby extension written with speed and robustness in mind using a Ragel-generated scanner and an extremely fast hand-coded parser, all in C. It has an enormous spec suite.

You can browse the source code repo, or download the gem from the rubygems.org downloads page. For an overview of how to use the extension check out the RDoc here. If you have RubyGems then you can install it with either gem install wikitext or sudo gem install wikitext.

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