Anyone know of good tutorials on how to make an editing tool. I have one
now for my blog site but some of the HTML tags get stripped away when I
need to re-edit. What I would like is a tool that always me to add the
tags that I want by clicking a button and maybe even do a preview kind
of thing (like a wiki). The way I work things now is to save my entries
to a database table, so I wonder if things get stripped away after being
pulled from the table? Thanks in advance,
-S
Anybody? I'm thinking about doing some character interruptitation so the
HTMNL tags don't get stripped away - something like ':p:' for a '<p>'
and ':-p:' for a '</p>. I don't know. I was just wondering if someone
has every tried anything like it in the Ruby world? I imagine that
someone has, I'm just looking for a few pointers before I get started.
not sure, if that's what you're looking for, but we used tinyMCE as
editor for a few projects and it worked fine. it's easy to write
plugins, eg to upload images and place them (or anything else like tags)
in the content.
That does look very nice, but what I was looking for was helpfull hints
on how to do something like myself. I thought such a project would be a
really a really cool way for someone like me get more practice under my
belt using R0R.
Thorsten Mueller wrote:
> looks more like a way to get a lot of practice in html & JavaScript. and
> that is a pain...
And that could be. I need brushing up on my JavaScript skills too. Any
helpful references on how to do this in JavaScript would be welcome as
well.
You should know, that writing a WYSIWYG editor like TinyMCE is:
a) Very non-trivial - it is a LOT of work
b) Has virtually nothing to do with RoR so you won't learn RoR that way
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A
I do have a very basic working example now in place on my website, so I
know I can do it, or at least something similar in RoR. I have been
programming in RoR now for almost a year and while I am relatively new
to the game I am still of the opinion that almost anything can be done
in RoR - my current problem included. My problem with the current
working example is that some of the HTML gets stripped away. I do have
ideas on how to make it more robust, but was simply looking at this as a
way to heighten my programming skill - in RoR and otherwise. While my
general knowledge of Rails is pretty grounded, my skills in ruby have
room for improvment.
I fully understand that it is a LOT of work, which, again, is kind of
the appeal. I also know that there are other add-ons out there that do
exactly what I am trying to do and odds are I might not get the thing
working, but I plan on giving it the 'ol college try. Thanks for all the
feed back,
I do have a very basic working example now in place on my website, so I
know I can do it, or at least something similar in RoR. I have been
programming in RoR now for almost a year and while I am relatively new
to the game I am still of the opinion that almost anything can be done
in RoR - my current problem included. My problem with the current
I think you're slightly missing the point. Rails is something that happens server side, whereas this is a client side problem. That doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing to do, but you won't further your understanding of rails by doing it.
working example is that some of the HTML gets stripped away. I do have
ideas on how to make it more robust, but was simply looking at this as a
way to heighten my programming skill - in RoR and otherwise. While my
general knowledge of Rails is pretty grounded, my skills in ruby have
room for improvment.
If html is getting stripped away it's probably because you're stripping it yourself (that's what the h function does), or because what you're producing is invalid html, in which case what happens is pretty much up to the browser but might look as if html was being stripped.
If html is getting stripped away it's probably because you're
stripping it yourself (that's what the h function does), or because
what you're producing is invalid html, in which case what happens is
pretty much up to the browser but might look as if html was being
stripped.
Fred
I will have to look into that. I saw that method in use in an example I
was looking at the other day and, to be honest, I had no idea of what it
was for. The HTML isn't being stripped out by me, I do know that,
because it does display properly, only when I pull it back does some
HTML tags (usually the ending tags) get stripped away.
Basically what I have is a textarea that I can enter text and HTML into;
I save it and get a preview of it in a edit_in_place field (maybe not
the way to go, I don't know, it was a solution I threw together in less
than half an hour). It's when I click on the edit_in_place field that
stuff gets stripped away. Thanks Fred,