Can Middleman's renderer for Markdown be reused in a helper?

#1

I have Middleman 3.1.

I am trying to write a helper to which I can pass a string formatted with Markdown that will be rendered into HTML.

Is it possible to use Middleman’s renderer for Markdown to do that?

#2

I got this working so far, but I don’t think I’m using the Markdown engine that would be selected by Middleman:

module FormatHelpers
  def markdown(source)
    Tilt::KramdownTemplate.new { source }.render
  end
end
#3

There’s nothing wrong with that approach, although like you say, you’re explicitly using Kramdown as the engine.

You can retrieve the selected Tilt engine like this:

Tilt['markdown'] # => Tilt::RedcarpetTemplate
#4

Can you show how you’d call this from the template?

Thanks.

#5

remino, never mind. I fgiured it out. I needed the ‘helpers do’ in config.rb.

Your helper fixed my problem. Thanks.

Markup in frontmatter?
#6

Oops. Didn’t notice replies until now. Sorry, everyone.

Thanks for the tip, @Aupajo.

Glad I could help, @tayknight.