A lib/github/markup/rdoc.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+require 'rdoc/generators/html_generator'
+
+module GitHub
+  module Markup
+    class RDoc
+      def initialize(content)
+        @content = content
+      end
+
+      def to_html
+        simple_markup = SM::SimpleMarkup.new
+        generator = Generators::HyperlinkHtml.new(nil, OpenStruct.new)
+        simple_markup.add_special(/((link:|https?:|mailto:|ftp:|www\.)\S+\w)/, :HYPERLINK)
+        simple_markup.add_special(/(((\{.*?\})|\b\S+?)\[\S+?\.\S+?\])/, :TIDYLINK)
+        simple_markup.convert(@content, generator)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end

M lib/github/markups.rb → lib/github/markups.rb

@@ -6,4 +6,8 @@ markup(:redcloth, /textile/) do |content|
   RedCloth.new(content).to_html
 end
 
+markup('github/markup/rdoc', /rdoc/) do |content|
+  GitHub::Markup::RDoc.new(content).to_html
+end
+
 command(:rest2html, /rest|rst/)

M test/markup_test.rb → test/markup_test.rb

@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ * One
 * Two
 output
 
+  test 'README.rdoc', <<-input, <<-output
+* One
+* Two
+input
+<ul>
+<li>One\n\n</li>
+<li>Two\n\n</li>
+</ul>
+output
+
   test 'README.rst', <<-input, <<-output
 1. Blah blah ``code`` blah