/rails-tiny-mce

tiny-mac for rails3

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

RailsTinyMCE,i find it can not be used in rails3,so i changed it for rails3.

cheng it it's author is http://github.com/sandipransing/rails_tiny_mce

i have found another Rich Text Editor kindeditor and make a gem in http://github.com/doabit/kindeditor

RailsTinyMCE - A Rich Text Editor for ruby on rails

TinyMCE is a javascript rich text editor. It is easy to integrate with blogs, cms, messages and mailers.

Plugin uses jquery paperclip plugin for upload support.

Features

  • Provides rich text editor
  • Customisable TinyMCE plugins
  • Easy to integrate
  • Supports Image upload & insert
  • Supports Media upload & Youtube embed
  • TODO: Document upload plugin
  1. Install rails_tiny_mce plugin using

rails plugin install git://github.com/doabit/rails_tiny_mce.git

rails g rails_tiny_mce_migration

rake db:migrate
  1. Install jqeury rails.js using

http://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/blob/master/src/rails.js download jqeuery.js ,put it in javascripts/

  1. Install dependent plugins(if you didn't)

rake rails_tiny_mce:plugins

Above command will copy paperclip, responds_to_parent, will_paginate plugins to vendor/plugins directory.

  1. In your layout add following lines

<%= javascript_include_tag "jquery","rails"%>
<%= javascript_include_tiny_mce_if_used %>
<%= tiny_mce if using_tiny_mce? %>
  1. Inside controller class on top add following lines

uses_tiny_mce(:options => AppConfig.default_mce_options, :only => [:new, :edit])

This AppConfig.default_mce_options is in config/initializers/tiny_mce_plus_config.rb, you could change the setting there

  1. In your view add class mceEditor to text_area

Then append the following to the text area you want to transform into a TinyMCE editor.

:class => "mceEditor"
  1. Install file lists!

rake rails_tiny_mce:install

will Install following files:

app
  |-- controller
    |-- attachments_controller.rb
  |-- helpers
    |-- remote_link_renderer.rb
  |-- models
    |-- print.rb
    |-- video.rb
  |-- views
    |-- attachments
       |-- _show_attachment_list.html.erb
	   |-- manage.js.erb
	   |-- create.js.erb
config
  |-- initializers
    |-- tiny_mce_plus_config.rb
public
  |-- images
    |-- tiny_mce
  |-- javascripts
    |-- tiny_mce

You may custom the config in tiny_mce_plus_config.rb.

Attention Note:

  • Do not put <p> </p> around the textarea.
  • If you are using old will_paginate plugin, change the url_for to url_option in remote_link_renderer.rb

Example use:

  • Create CRUD for post

    rails generate scaffold post title:string description:text

  • Run Migrations

    rake db:migrate

  • Add following line to posts_controller.rb

    uses_tiny_mce(:options => AppConfig.default_mce_options, :only => [:new, :edit])

  • Open /views/posts/new.html.erb and /views/posts/edit.html.erb

  • Modifiy following line

    <%= f.text_area :description %> to <%= f.text_area :description, :class => "mceEditor" %>

Contributors

  1. Sandip Ransing, Josh Software Private Limited
  2. ilake

thats, all

any sugestions? san2821 at gmail.com or sandip at joshsoftware.com released under the MIT license