1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 0b46db4b1c3..a803b66c502 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -213,6 +213,10 @@ module ApplicationHelper
       Haml::Helpers.preserve(markdown(file_content))
     elsif asciidoc?(file_name)
       asciidoc(file_content)
+    elsif plain?(file_name)
+      content_tag :pre, class: 'plain-readme' do
+        file_content
+      end
     else
       GitHub::Markup.render(file_name, file_content).
         force_encoding(file_content.encoding).html_safe
@@ -221,6 +225,10 @@ module ApplicationHelper
     simple_format(file_content)
   end
 
+  def plain?(filename)
+    Gitlab::MarkupHelper.plain?(filename)
+  end
+
   def markup?(filename)
     Gitlab::MarkupHelper.markup?(filename)
   end