Rich text editor?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi all,

would you recommend something to integrate rich text editor capabilities in a Rails app? I am currently looking at integrating Zoho Writer since it's got so many features, but I was wondering whether somebody here knows of some gems or whatever that they would recommend for this kind of requirement.

Thanks a lot in advance Vito

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You want an editor for rails or to put an editor in you app for the users?

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You might be interested in tinymce. I can’t say more about it as I never actually used it in one of my projects.

Markus

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I just put TinyMCE into a project. I didn't use a gem, just dropped it into a Rails 3 project and it worked fine.

Only issue is you need some kind of file browser and as I'm deploying to heroku I need one based around something like the s3 gem. If anyone has any recommendations for a starting point I'd appreciate them. I saw some s3 file browsers, but nothing really grabbed me, so I may just write a file browser, bundle it up with TinyMCE and release it as a gem.

Best Wishes, Peter

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I just put TinyMCE into a project. I didn't use a gem, just dropped it into a Rails 3 project and it worked fine.

Only issue is you need some kind of file browser and as I'm deploying to heroku I need one based around something like the s3 gem. If anyone has any recommendations for a starting point I'd appreciate them. I saw some s3 file browsers, but nothing really grabbed me, so I may just write a file browser, bundle it up with TinyMCE and release it as a gem.

Best Wishes, Peter

Peter -

elFinder is a pretty nice file browser that says it will integrate into tinymce... There is a ruby/rails server adapter for it, but it doesn't support S3... but if you decide to do it, that may be a good place to start.

http://rubygems.org/gems/el_finder

Disclaimer... I wrote the ruby adapter...

To the OP, you might check out elrte as well... http://elrte.org/

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elFinder is a pretty nice file browser that says it will integrate into tinymce... There is a ruby/rails server adapter for it, but it doesn't support S3... but if you decide to do it, that may be a good place to start. el_finder | RubyGems.org | your community gem host Disclaimer... I wrote the ruby adapter...

Hi Philip,

Thanks - I'll check it out and let you know how things go if I do anything with it!

Bets Wishes, Peter

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TinyMCE is shit!

Oh and if you dare use it, remember to activate the option to not convert special characters to html entities or your data is doomed.

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Use Quantaplus. I have tried around 10 editors. it is the best of them.

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I use Redcar Editor to edit all files (.rb, yaml, xml, text, Rakefile, etc).

It supplies all my basic needs, it’s free-software, and I can write a plugin to implement new features to it.

Regards,

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Hi all, thanks for the replies. I see there was a little confusion, by "to integrate rich text editor capabilities in a Rails app" i meant giving the users of the Rails app the ability to edit content with a rich text editor, not an editor to work with Rails :slight_smile:

I have tried TinyMCE and others, but at the moment I am using CKEditor since it seems to be better than TinyMCE and it integrates well with Rails. Zoho Editor is really cool so I may eventually use that one, I don't know yet because the editor is great (much better than any TinyMCE, CKEditor and alike), but a local thing like CKEditor is a bit faster.

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Oh, I apologize. I misunderstood totally the subject of the thread. I’m sorry.

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http://about.me/caiofbpa

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Try CKeditor. I am using it right now and so far, so good.

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I really like the YUI javascript libraries in general, and have used their RTE with success: Yahoo Developer Network

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I really like the YUI javascript libraries in general, and have used their RTE with success: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

That looks cool, but do they have a version for YUI3? I could only see one for YUI2.

Walter

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Yes, it is marked "beta", but their beta stuff is pretty solid.

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Yes, it is marked "beta", but their beta stuff is pretty solid.

Only downside seems to be that it says you have to write your own UI . . .

Best Wishes, Peter

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Oh, yeah. The two projects that I've extensively used it in are YUI 2 projects. I'd suggest sticking with the YUI 2 version at the moment.

I have mixed YUI 2 and YUI 3 very easily in the same project. In fact, most of my projects have pieces of prototype, YUI 2 and YUI 3 co-existing, since I don't have time to rewrite everything.

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I have used CKEditor for some time with no problems, I have one page with several editor instances and it works fine.

There is a rails plugin https://github.com/standout/rails-ckeditor I think this is the one I used

Tony

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Correction, just checked and doesn't look like I used a plugin so can't say how good plugin is!