John Wulff

Blake Watters has just created a TinyMCE plugin for Ruby on Rails.

How-To integrate TinyMCE into your Rails app (assumes you’re using svn).

1. Add the plugin to your svn:externals and get the latest code.

   $ cd MyRailsApp
   $ script/plugin install -x https://secure.near-time.com/svn/plugins/trunk/tiny_mce

2. Add the following to your application.rhtml

   <% # Include TinyMCE before other JS to avoid problems -%>
   <%= javascript_include_tiny_mce_if_used %>
   <%= tiny_mce if using_tiny_mce? %>

3. Install the JavaScript

   $ rake tiny_mce:scripts:install

4. Activate TinyMCE for a controller. (Uses TinyMCE for any TextArea).

   class MyController < ApplicationController
     uses_tiny_mce
     ...

uses_tiny_mce(:options => {:theme => 'advanced',
  :browsers => %w{msie gecko},
  :theme_advanced_toolbar_location => "top",
  :theme_advanced_toolbar_align => "left",
  :theme_advanced_resizing => true,
  :theme_advanced_resize_horizontal => false,
  :paste_auto_cleanup_on_paste => true,
  :theme_advanced_buttons1 => %w{formatselect fontselect fontsizeselect bold italic underline strikethrough separator justifyleft justifycenter justifyright indent outdent separator bullist numlist forecolor backcolor separator link unlink image undo redo},
  :theme_advanced_buttons2 => [],
  :theme_advanced_buttons3 => [],
  :plugins => %w{contextmenu paste}},
  :only => [:new, :edit, :show, :index])

Awesome work Blake.

UPDATE: This info is now in the Ruby on Rails Wiki.