Textile Editor Helper is a plugin for Ruby on Rails to add a Textile toolbar above textareas
This version of Textile Editor Helper is a fork of the code found at http://svn.webtest.wvu.edu/repos/rails/plugins/textile_editor_helper/ to allow for use with the form_for method.
To use Textile Editor Helper you must be using either the Prototype or jQuery JavaScript libraries. If using Prototype, the Textile Editor Helper starts up on the 'dom:loaded' custom event. If using jQuery, it uses the $(document).ready() method.
Directions to get the helper up and running for your install:
First, you'll need to run rake textile_editor_helper:install
To use the Textile-Editor-Helper with a specific text area, you can choose between the following options:
<%= f.textile_editor :description %>
<%= textile_editor :user, "website" %>
<%= textile_editor_tag 'description', :description %>
Just like writing a text area tag!
At the end of your form put in the following code:
<%= textile_editor_initialize %> **Important!**
If you're a jQuery guy, we've got what you need!
<%= textile_editor_initialize(:framework => :jquery) %>
Then, just save your view and check it out
TEH has a built-in mode to show only a sub-selection of available tags called simple.
Currently the simple tags are: bold, underline, italic, strikethrough.
To create a text area that will only use the 'simple' tags create your text area with the following code:
<%= textile_editor 'object', 'field', :simple -%>
Most of the options that you might want to modify (e.g. access keystroke or whether a tag is available in simple) are found in textile_editor_config.js. Pretty straightforward.
To learn more about Textile check out: Textism, http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/index.php & Textile Reference, http://hobix.com/textile/
slate is the CMS in development at West Virginia University that led to the development of Textile Editor Helper. Learn more at: http://slateinfo.blogs.wvu.edu
Textile Editor Helper is released under the MIT license.
Textile Editor Helper was created by Dave Olsen (Javascript) and Chris Scharf (Ruby/Rails) of West Virginia University Web Services (http://webservices.wvu.edu/)
The project is now, unofficially maintained by Nicolás Hock
Patrick Woods, http://www.hakjoon.com/code/38/textile-quicktags-redirect & Alex King, http://alexking.org/projects/js-quicktags