Textile Editor Helper plugin

This plugin adds a simple editor to a textarea of your choice. But make sure, you have the Prototype javascript library included (e.g. javascript_include_tag :defaults), or else it won’t work.

1. Installation

ruby script/plugin install http://svn.webtest.wvu.edu/repos/rails/plugins/textile_editor_helper/

2. Copy images and javascript to public folder – Fortunately there exists a rake task, so this is trivial:

rake textile_editor_helper:install

3. View – Replace the textarea-tag that’s responsible for inputing the textiled text with:

<%= textile_editor 'model', 'field' %>

Note: textile_editor accepts the same parameters as text_area

4. View (requirement!) – Add the following line to the end of your view-file, or else it won’t work:

<%= textile_editor_initialize %>

Done! This is how it looks like:

You can see the plugin live in action on this site (when you add a new Tip). I added 3 custom buttons to it, so if you need additional functionality, check the link to the homepage of the plugin for more information.