Thanks a lot to 37signals for their new WritebookOnce.com app. It has an ActionText::Markdown extension with a new custom editor (not Trix). Is there any possibility for this to be upstreamed into Action Text so that other projects may benefit? Also, apparently only a minified version of the editor toolbar JS is available (under vendor/javascript/house.min.js). Anyone knows where the source code may be found?
There seems to be very little communication about this new app so far but perhaps I am missing some announcement. Has 37signals’ position regarding upstreaming parts of it to Rails been communicated somewhere?
We built a new Markdown editor for this called House.
Will be a stand-alone project soon. But before we release something like that, we want to use it in anger on a real project, and see what falls out of that. So that’s what we’re doing now.
I seem to remember that it was announced at last year’s Rails World that House MD would come out in Rails 8.1, so supposedly for this year’s Rails World
No, 37signals hasn’t publicly announced plans to upstream the Writebook Once.com editor or ActionText::Markdown extension to Rails. The source code for the custom editor (house.min.js) hasn’t be