TextAreaWithStatus 1.0 has been released
http://code.google.com/p/text-area-with-status/
== Overview ==
This plugin is extending builtin text_area and text_area_tag helpers with the ability to display chars left up to a specified limit.
Basically it turns this:
<%= f.text_area :description, :onkeyup => "limit_chars(this, 100, $ ('chars_left'))" %><br />
<span id="chars_left">You have <%= 100 - @object.description.length %> characters left. </span>
into this:
<%= f.text_area :description, :max_chars => 100 %>
You can also customize the status message.
== Install & Setup ==
You can install it with:
script/plugin install http://text-area-with-status.googlecode.com/svn/tags/text_area_with_status
Upon install it will try to copy the needed .js file under public/ javascripts folder and display the README. If that fails you can either try to manually run the install script like this:
ruby vendor/plugins/text_area_with_status/install.rb
or just manually copy the needed .js file. Please see the included README for more detailed instructions.
