PluginReStructuredTextFormatter¶

Redmine reStructuredText Formatter¶

This is a redmine plugin for supporting reStructuredText as a wiki format using either the RbST reStructuredText gem, which can convert all RST but is slow, or PandocRuby, which only supports a subset of RST but is fast.

Notes¶

RbST/docutils version (master branch)¶

This is potentially quite slow. RbST processes reStructuredText via Python's docutils, and docutils is slow. As far as I can tell, Redmine always formats text using a helper on each request, which means this plugin will likely add a few tenths of a second to each request, possibly more. On my machine, normal views take 450-550ms to render with the default textile option and 650-750 with this plugin. Heavily marked-up pages like the RST cheat sheet bumps it up to 1.2s. I wouldn't recommend this for public-facing pages, but it's probably OK for private Redmine instances.

PandocRuby version (pandoc-ruby branch)¶

Pandoc is much faster than docutils and should be roughly as fast as the native textile, but it only supports a subset of RST, so some features like tables are not available. This version is available on the `pandoc-ruby` branch.

Installation¶

RbST/docutils version¶

• Install Python and docutils
• gem install RbST
• script/plugin install git://github.com/autodata/redmine_restructuredtext_formatter.git
• Start Redmine

PandocRuby version¶

• Install Pandoc
• gem install pandoc-ruby
• cd vendor/plugins
• git clone git://github.com/autodata/redmine_restructuredtext_formatter.git
• git checkout pandoc-ruby
• Start Redmine

Notes¶

This plugin was derived directly from Larry Baltz's redmine_markdown_formatter.