index: generate the page as markdown

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/index.rb b/index.rb
index 60aa54b..f3ef5b0 100755
--- a/index.rb
+++ b/index.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+require 'rdiscount'
 require 'erb'
 
 @title = "Web log entries"
@@ -8,13 +9,13 @@ license = "CC BY-SA-3.0"
 license_url = 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/'
 @license="<a href=\"#{license_url}\">#{license}</a>"
 
-@content = "<h1>#{@title}</h1>\n<ul>\n"
+markdown = "# #{@title}\n\n"
 for filename in ARGV do
 	title = File.read(filename).split("\n",2).first
 	slug = filename.sub(/^public\//,'').sub(/\.md$/,'')
-	@content += "<li><tt><a href='./#{slug}.html'>#{slug}</a></tt> — #{title}</a></li>\n"
+	markdown += " * [`#{slug}`](./#{slug}.html) — #{title}\n"
 end
-@content += "</ul>\n"
+@content = RDiscount.new(markdown).to_html
 
 template = 'template.erb'
 erb = ERB.new(File.read(template));