I just got a simple script working that will parse a text file that is marked up in “Textile”:http://textism.com/tools/textile/ and turn it into HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language). It is a simple “Ruby”:http://www.ruby-lang.org script that requires RubyGems and “RedCloth”:http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/.

Just run
<typo:code>
ruby textilize.rb myfile.txt another_file.txt
</typo:code>

and it will create a myfile.txt.html and another_file.txt.html. This is great for those who want to write in textile for their website but want to test it before it goes live.

h3. The Code

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Used to generate a HTML-ized file from a textile marked up file
#

require 'rubygems'
require 'redcloth'

ARGV.each { |file|
  a = File.open(file, "r")
  lines = a.readlines
  a.close

  contents = Array.new()
  lines.each { |line|
    contents << line
  }
  html_file = File.new(file +".html", "w")
  html_file.puts(RedCloth.new(contents.join()).to_html)
  html_file.close

}

Eric Davis