I have been using tinyMce_hammer plugin to use tinymce in my rails app... but right now I also want a way for my users to upload photos and insert them into their wysiwyg editor.... is there a simple way to get this done??.. is there any other wysiwyg editor that works with rails and comes with this feature built in??... what do you reccomend?
These two plugins claim to offer it - Rails 2.3 - https://github.com/andreferraro/rails_tiny_mce
Rails 3 - https://github.com/sandipransing/rails_tiny_mce
I don't think there's an easy way to do this in any of the common rich text editors. I usually have a separate section where users can upload photos and then choose from a variety of layout options.
TinyMCE has a couple of commercial image and file management plugins, but they are based on PHP and .Net. However, I haven't seen a Rails version. It's not particularly hard to build your own image manager using a plugin like paperclip and hook into TinyMCE.
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Is TinyMCE editor compatible with rails 2? what are better editors apart from fck editor that can be used in rails, is it compatible with rails 2 as well?
EDIT:
Is TinyMCE editor customizable? html tags can be used in the editor space?
Yes, TinyMCE is compatible with all versions of Rails, because it really has nothing to do with it, all frontend (client-side) editors are just "decorators" for textareas, meaning Rails doesn't care what's in them.
I normally avoid using editors like TinyMCE or FCK, because they force me to "reverse" my development workflow - they come with everything and I need to strip 90% of functionality down. So a better approach would be to use something like markdown and educate users on it's use.
And yes, pretty much all editors are heavily customizable - I recommend you read their respective manuals
I have a rails app that allows users to create their own website easily but they share the same page structure.
I plan to switch my classic rails views for a templating language such as liquid or handlebars.
The goal is that my users could upload their own version of templates and css to completely customize the look and feel of their website.
Example of workflow :
User upload a theme folder containing Templates and Css files
Their website automatically uses this new templates and designs
Is it possible to do that and continue to take advantages of the Rails Assets pipeline?
Thanks a lot for your answers !
This might be something you can try: http://www.krautcomputing.com/blog/2012/03/27/how-to-compile-custom-sass-stylesheets-dynamically-during-runtime/.
I've used this in a Rails 3.2x project and it works fine, but I'm having difficulties getting it working in a different (somewhat modified Rails 4 project).
It's older article about compiling css on the fly using the Sprockets::StaticCompiler class.
I have been doing UI research and have come across admin templates at http://themeforest.net/. I was wondering how do you apply these onto a web app built on Rails. These templates look very similar to wordpress themes. Are they that easy to configure? Is it just as simple as setting up a link to the database to make the fields form capture data? I've been looking at this theme.
For admin templates I recommend using Active Admin. It's relatively easy to implement and gives you great admin screens with little effort.
Yes, You can. I'm trying to solve the same problem and so far I have a couple options:
1.) do it by hand, I've done this before, it works but takes a lot of time to truly understand how your theme is put together. First I would recommend using the included themes assets exactly as they are bundled with the theme. Don't assume that just because you have twitter-bootstrap-rails gem that the bootstrap classes in the theme will work. Link the assets statically and slowly extract out the static assets and replace them in the asset pipeline once you know they work.
2.) Use the strategy suggested in the install_theme gem (http://drnicwilliams.com/2009/10/06/install-any-html-themetemplate-into-your-rails-app/) the gem itself is not maintained any longer (i'm not sure about any forks), but the strategy is sound. Extract the core parts of the template into partials.
The short answer is yes, but there is no straight forward way to "import to rails"
After several Google searches, it appears that the way to create PDFs in Rails from HTML and CSS (versus a new markup language) is to use Prince.
With licensing at $3800 for my non-big-commercial app, I'm wondering if this is, in fact, consensus or people have an alternative they can share the whats and hows.
You may check out prawn too. Tutorial can be found on railscasts.com.
This may fit the bill: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
We tried tow solutions:
using latex generate pdf, there is ruby gem code rtex
using java library iText, use it you may need rjb which allow you using java lib directly in ruby code, just like jruby, but you don't need build all you application on jruby.
I create tons of different PDF files on the fly from various data sources using Rails, including finest layout. I create need to create them for presenting products to customers.
After having tried all the tools mentioned above, Prince is the best tool for this task.
Prince's rendering quality & CSS support (better than some browsers) is its main selling point. If you're only generating documents with simple layouts, stick with Prawn.
Hi i want to use WYSIWYG web editor (the editor should have a option for adding videos, images,powerpoint etc..) on to my Rails application. Can any one suggest how can i integrate this editor into my rails application with above feature support. Thanks in advance
FCKEditor
Now it is known as CKeditor.
Please check this tutorial whcih explains how to integrate FCKEditor in Ruby on Rails
You might want to check out WYSI-dangerous: Why WYSIWYG editors are bad for your website and take a look at wymeditor.