Rails legacy database migration, Part 2
(Link to Part 1) Now let’s look at some tools that can help you migrating messy html into some more easy to maintain format. Obvious choice for many would be markdown, but as markdown is quite geeky I decided to go with well known by average user - and hated by many programmers - BBCode. BBCode would also allow me to implement some custom tags that I needed anyway - so from now we will stick with it.