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 jrails(jquery) and 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

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./script/plugin install git://github.com/sandipransing/rails_tiny_mce.git

./script/generate rails_tiny_mce_migration

rake db:migrate

2. Install jrails(jquery) plugin using

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./script/plugin install git://github.com/aaronchi/jrails.git

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

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rake rails_tiny_mce:plugins

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

• paperclip git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git
• responds_to_parent http://responds-to-parent.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
• will_paginate git://github.com/mislav/will_paginate.git

4. In your layout add following lines

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<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>
<%= javascript_include_tiny_mce_if_used %>
<%= tiny_mce if using_tiny_mce? %>

5. Inside controller class on top add following lines

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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

6. In your view add class mceEditor to text_area

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

:class => "mceEditor"

7. Install file lists

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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
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

  ./script/generate scaffold post title:string text:description

• 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" %>

FAQ

1. How to get image from post body

   #Add imagepath method in post model def imagepath match = body.match(/img src="(.+)" border/) $1 if match end

And use post.imagepath to get url of image embeded in post content

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