Rendering markdown views in rails

Rails is a fantastic tool for building web applications, with a large set of conventions and "batteries-included" libraries guiding the development. One area where Rails does not have great support though is for hosting static Markdown pages along with the rest of the application. Luckily, it's easy to hook into Rails' rendering flow to build out the functionality ourselves.If you want to try this at home, here's a GitHub link to a demo application that follows the blog post below. Each commit corresponds to a section in the post.