Tiny Mce

This plugin provides for the installation and utilization of TinyMCE in Ruby on Rails applications. TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG HTML editing component released under the GNU Public License (GPL) by Moxiecode Systems (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/).

INSTALL

Install the plugin by running

script/plugin install git://github.com/kete/tiny_mce.git

Then install the necessary files into your public directory by running

rake tiny_mce:scripts:install

USAGE

Add something like the following to the controller of the view you want to add TinyMCE to.

TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor stuff uses_tiny_mce(:options => { :theme => ‘advanced’, :mode => “textareas”, :convert_urls => false, :content_css => ”/stylesheets/base.css”, :remove_script_host => true, :theme_advanced_toolbar_location => “top”, :theme_advanced_toolbar_align => “left”, :theme_advanced_resizing => true, :theme_advanced_resize_horizontal => false, :theme_advanced_buttons1 => %w{ bold italic underline strikethrough separator justifyleft justifycenter justifyright indent outdent separator bullist numlist forecolor backcolor separator link unlink image undo redo code}, :theme_advanced_buttons2 => %w{ formatselect fontselect fontsizeselect pastetext pasteword selectall }, :theme_advanced_buttons3_add => %w{ tablecontrols fullscreen}, :editor_selector => ‘mceEditor’, :paste_create_paragraphs => true, :paste_create_linebreaks => true, :paste_use_dialog => true, :paste_auto_cleanup_on_paste => true, :paste_convert_middot_lists => false, :paste_unindented_list_class => “unindentedList”, :paste_convert_headers_to_strong => true, :paste_insert_word_content_callback => “convertWord”, :plugins => %w{ contextmenu paste table fullscreen} }, :only => [:new, :pick, :create, :edit, :update, :homepage_options])
end TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor stuff

Then append the following to the text area you want to transform into a TinyMCE editor. You can change the name by editing the ‘editor_selector’ param in the controller code.