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Created September 8, 2011 19:53
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Render the passed file with GitHub's Markdown renderer
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markdown.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'redcarpet'
path = ARGV[0]
file = File.open(path, 'r')
contents = file.read
markdown_renderer = Redcarpet::Markdown.new(Redcarpet::Render::HTML)
html = markdown_renderer.render(contents)
puts html
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Requires Redcarpet; I installed it with RubyGems.

(Disclaimer: I'm a total Ruby noob.)

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