Client for the GitHub Markdown API

testmd.rb

require "json"
require "net/https"

content = ARGF.read

http = Net::HTTP.new("api.github.com", 443).tap do |h|
  h.use_ssl = true
end

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/markdown")
request.body = {text: content, mode: "gfm"}.to_json

response = http.request(request)

print response.body