# Get ruby-bbcode-to-md to ignore \[quote\]

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**Created:** [30 Novembre 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-ruby-bbcode-to-md-to-ignore-quote/75106 "2017-11-30T18:41:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [30 Novembre 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-ruby-bbcode-to-md-to-ignore-quote/75106/1 "2017-11-30T18:41:16Z")

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I’m doing some work on the xenforo importer and have modified it so that it converts the BBcode `[quote]` tags into Discourse `[quote="username,post:<post_number>, topic:<topic_id>]` tags, but ruby-bbcode-to-md breaks it since it doesn’t know how awesome those `[quote]`s are.

My solution has mostly been to just not use @neil’s ruby-bbcode-to-md ([GitHub - nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md: Convert BBCode to Markdown. · GitHub](https://github.com/nlalonde/ruby-bbcode-to-md)) and just piecemeal replace tags in the importer. This seems sucky (but I think it’s good enough)

Should I fork the library and try to get it to ignore those quotes? Should there be a way to get the library to know to ignore those? (Seems like a regex nightmare to me).

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