Getting to know Markaby

I've spent the past two evenings hard at work on an update of jonsteenbergen.com. Since I was building it using Ruby on Rails I figured I'd give Markaby a shot. The syntax is interesting, I'm not exactly sure what I think. So far it does seem a bit cleaner, plus I'm writing Ruby instead of HTML - that can't be all bad.

It did take a bit of poking around to figure out how to escape HTML characters like the © symbol. I still haven't figured out how to handle <br /> tags yet. But, I think I'll stick with it through this project (or at least most of it.)

In case you are wondering, the escape works like this:

p do
    text "my escaped string &copy;"
end