org-ruby

It works great as a simple markdown. I have over a dozen org files on github that I use for notes. You're making that common mistake to assume that if someone isn't using all the power features of a tool then you should use a simpler tool. I have a tool with room to grow. For example: https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby People use Emacs for writing books. You'd probably tell them they're wasting their time? http://www.therandymon.com/index.php?/197-Woodnotes-Guide-to...

I use org on Github to maintain my notes. A lot of times I'll just edit directly in the browser and commit. GitHub renders with org-ruby: https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby

> A little known fact, even among most org-users: Github can render > org-mode files to HTML directly if checked into a repo, thus you can > write your README files as org-files. I recently stumbled across the tidbit. The Ruby library Github uses to generate it though isn't 100% though. If you want to use org-mode properties for style customization of html output your SOL. Original project: https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby Currently, you cannot do much to customize the conversion. The supplied textile conversion is optimized for extracting “content” from the orgfile as opposed to “metadata.” It does say that developement has moved to: https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby Which has no such note, but doesn't say anything about supporting it.

Don't think so. It's simply a file format like markdown. Github will render org files. Think they use this Ruby gem. https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby Perhaps we need more complete implementations but there's nothing preventing anyone from finishing the job.

IMO, find an open source project on Github that you think is cool and is, at least, partially working. Then eyeball the code, ping others working on the code, etc... You should be able to find a project that is a good fit. Because you'd be joining a project with other devs working it, you'll be able to start with small changes and progress to bigger ones. As you're not the only dev, you don't need to get the whole thing done, just your little piece. As the project already exists, you'll be able to look at the code's design and work with the other devs to learn. Like you, when I wanted to learn Ruby, I was nervous biting off a big project. So I worked on the org-ruby gem. I only made a tiny mod to it but that gem is one of the gems that Github uses. IMO, that's very cool. You can look at the pull request history for the work I did at https