UPDATE: the yui_editor from yahoo might be a better option. especially larsklevan’s yui_editor plugin for rails. it worked the first time, was way easier to setup and tinymce, and is still working great.
see new post on how to setup yui_editor
1. Install the plugin (instructions available on the rails wiki)
- ruby script/plugin install http://secure.near-time.com/svn/plugins/trunk/tiny_mce/
- rake tiny_mce:scripts:install
- Put the following in your views:
- Add it to whatever controller needs it:
class MyController < ApplicationController
uses_tiny_mce
…
And add this code in your view admin.rhtml or application.rhtml
<% # Include TinyMCE before other JS to avoid problems -%>
<%= javascript_include_tiny_mce_if_used %>
<%= tiny_mce if using_tiny_mce? %>
That’s actually it. It will work really nicely (tested on Rails 2.0.2 and ruby 1.8.6 on localhost)
Next, you’ll want to be able to add images inline style. Here’s a useful tutorial Part 1 and Part 2 for that.
Make sure foil XSS attacks MAKE A WHITELIST. Technoweenie is awesome.
Another helpful tutorial.
Keep in mind, you’ll need to restart your server.
Also, here’s a more custom setup for the uses_tiny_mce call in your controller. This is the setup I prefer.
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{bold italic strikethrough separator justifyleft justifycenter justifyright indent outdent separator bullist numlist separator link unlink separator undo redo },
:theme_advanced_buttons2 => [],
:theme_advanced_buttons3 => [],
:plugins => %w{contextmenu paste}},
:only => [:new, :edit, :show, :index])
UPDATE JULY 10TH, 2008
You might have some issues with remote_for forms with tinymce. To solve the problem do something like this:
<% form_remote_for([:admin, Snippet.new], :before => "tinyMCE.triggerSave(true,true)") do |f| %>
Better yet, take a look at this awesome tutorial for how to use tinyMCE with AJAX in Rails
5 Responses | June 8, 2008
It looks like the rails session only stores 4k of data. If you have a large form, it might not work.
Looks like I?ll probably have to change to the database session
- this guy has a solution
- then you need to do this
he changed to database session helpful forum answer link
No Comments | May 22, 2008
To generate pdfs:
No Comments | May 16, 2008
To style dates in rails use strftime function.
For example: <%= comment.created_at.strftime(?%Y?) %>
Though, this might technically be ruby code not rails.
No Comments | May 13, 2008
UPDATE: Here is updated code
Definitely, use fastercsv
The best way to explain this is with code. Here it is. Copy and paste. Copy and paste.
No Comments | May 13, 2008
Ryan Bates is the man and so is Rick Olson who created the plugin. Actually Mr. Olson is even more the man.
No Comments | May 12, 2008
UPDATE: I made some code changes that seemed to work better for my needs. Plus, it places everything in the respond_to .csv block. Check the pastie
Recipe 35 of rails recipes does not seem to work any longer on rails 2.0. I believe you have to now strictly use FasterCSV - which is supposed to be much better anyhow.
fastercsv docs
fastercsv project page
Here is a great tutorial on how to get it working
to install fastercsv, you must install the gem. Do the command: sudo gem install fastercsv
No Comments | May 9, 2008
Here is how to do it:
Date range to SQL clause
(6.months.ago.to_date..1.year.ago.to_date).to_s(:db) => ?BETWEEN ?2005-07-27? AND ?2005-01-22??
taken from here
No Comments | May 9, 2008
The following are some good resource for how to use Gruff graphs:
The last one was HUGELY helpful:
def stats g = Gruff::Line.new(?580x210?) g.theme = { :colors => [?#ff6600?, ?#3bb000?, ?#1e90ff?, ?#efba00?, ?#0aaafd?], :marker_color => ?#aaa?, :background_colors => [?#eaeaea?, ?#fff?] }
g.hide_title = true
g.font = File.expand_path('path/to/font.ttf', RAILS_ROOT)
range = "created_at #{(12.months.ago.to_date..Date.today).to_s(:db)}"
@users = User.count(:all, :conditions => range, :group => "DATE_FORMAT(created_at, '%Y-%m')", :order =>"created_at ASC")
@votes = Vote.count(:all, :conditions => range, :group => "DATE_FORMAT(created_at, '%Y-%m')", :order =>"created_at ASC")
@bookmarks = Bookmark.count(:all, :conditions => range, :group => "DATE_FORMAT(created_at, '%Y-%m')", :order =>"created_at ASC")
# Take the union of all keys & convert into a hash {1 => "month", 2 => "month2"...}
# - This will be the x-axis.. representing the date range
months = (@users.keys | @votes.keys | @bookmarks.keys).sort
keys = Hash[*months.collect {|v| [months.index(v),v.to_s] }.flatten]
# Plot the data - insert 0's for missing keys
g.data("Users", keys.collect {|k,v| @users[v].nil? ? 0 : @users[v]})
g.data("Votes", keys.collect {|k,v| @votes[v].nil? ? 0 : @votes[v]})
g.data("Bookmarks", keys.collect {|k,v| @bookmarks[v].nil? ? 0 : @bookmarks[v]})
g.labels = keys
send_data(g.to_blob, :disposition => 'inline', :type => 'image/png', :filename => "site-stats.png")
end
No Comments | May 9, 2008
