Markdown files as static content

We will be talking about a feature implemented on Agile Ventures that allow us to use markdown files as static content of the website. This idea was born when thinking about how to let developers contribute to the content of the site in an easier way while taking advantage of the GitHub ecosystem.What we were using for editing the static content on the website was the mercury editor. But the problem with that editor is that has fallen out of maintenance. I have done a couple changes to that gem in order to make it work with rails 5. We are now using a custom version in a forked repository, but that is another story .