MediaCloth is the MediaWiki syntax parser and html generator written in ruby. It's small, fast and aims to recognize the complete MediaWiki language.

To install the library run:

ruby setup.rb

The quickest way to parse your input and produce html formatted text is:

require 'mediacloth'
puts MediaCloth::wiki_to_html("'''Hello'''''World''!")

You can also provide a hash with custom options if you want to use another generator or link handler:

require 'mediacloth'
puts MediaCloth::wiki_to_html("'''Hello'''''World''!", :link_handler => MyLinkHandler.new)

Both examples should produce

<b>Hello</b><i>World</i>!

To generate API documentation run:

rake rdoc

To run tests execute

rake test

To regenerate test data (html and lex files from wiki input), run:

rake test:regenerate