Help with TinyMCE

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Does anyone have experiance using TinyMCE in ROR?

I am creating a CMS type of system. I need text areas that users can add formatted text and links. I installed TinyMCE and it works beautifully when a user is creating an item in a textarea, but when a user edits the item the textarea is no longer a TinyMCE editor - just a plain old text area. Does anyone know why, and how do I fix it so that when a user is editing a textarea item they can use TinyMCE?

Other options besides TinyMCE is welcomed as well.

Thanks in advance -K

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I've never used TinyMCE for very long. I managed to integrate it once, but it was much too bulky for my tastes. I really dug widgEditor, despite its crappy icons: The Man in Blue > Experiments > widgEditor I just found WYMeditor which looks *very* promising though: WYMeditor - web-based XHTML editor - Demo

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Yes, I'm using this TincMCE plugin

http://www.johnwulff.com/articles/2006/5/31/tinymce-with-ruby-on-rails/

and haven't had any problems with it.

Michael

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Rick, I tried widgeditor - seems buggy. Its OK, but now I am having the problem that when a user is first creating content the textfield does not let you enter text. But it works fine when you are editing information. Any suggestions?

Michael, I could not get the TinyMCE plugin to install - any suggestions?

Thanks --K

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Yea, if you look at comment #208 on the blog, I posted a workaround for it:

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Nick, Did you get tinymce to be able to edit content?

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I have tinymce working fine on a rails app. Can you post the code for the textarea that you're trying to make editable?

Steve

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Sorry maybe I am confusing people. My problem is not that the text area is not editable, my problem is that when a user creates content (with a create action) for a page the tinymce editor works great, but when the user then wants to edit that content (with an edit action) the text area is just a plain text area - no tinymce editor - the content is displayed in the text area with html tags.

I want the users to be able to use a tinymce editor to edit the content - just like when they created it.

Am I making sense?

Code:

In Layout

tinyMCE.init({ mode : "textareas", theme : "advanced", theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold,italic,underline,separator,bullist,numlist,link, separator,preview", theme_advanced_buttons2 : "", theme_advanced_buttons3 : "", plugins : "preview" }); In .rhtml partial (create and edit uses the same form) Description: <%= text_area('mod', 'description') %> Thanks for any help.
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Thanks for everyones help - I got it to work - I was having a routing error.