Developers love GitHub’s markdown editor and there’s a reason for that. It effortlessly enables us to write simple text and have it transform to rich media.
It feels that it has all the right features without in-your-way bells and whistles.

This is the editor I wanted to have since forever 🙌

Today, we are proud to present to you Marksmith. The GitHub-style markdown editor for Ruby on Rails. It supports ActiveStorage and has a few powerhouse features like preview-panel and helper, toolbar, and list-continuation.

Seamless markdown editing

I feel that the best way to write markdown is in plain-text. I’ve used those “markdown wysiwyg” editors like EasyMDE but they just don’t feel natural. I think in text, so I want to write text. Let me just write it like that.

That’s why Marksmith’s interface is a plain textarea where you write plain text. No distractions or any fancy post processing.

It also features GitHub’s markdown-toolbar-element which will help those who need to quickly change the styling.

Quick Preview

Once I finish writing the markdown I usually click the preview button to see what it would look like and if the