Imperavi Redactor for Rails 3.x - 4 Asset Pipeline

redactor2_rails integrates Imperavi Redactor for Rails Asset Pipeline (Rails 4, 3.x versions are supported)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'redactor2_rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install redactor2_rails

Generate models for store uploading files

ActiveRecord + carrierwave

Add this lines to your application's Gemfile:

gem "carrierwave"
gem "mini_magick"

And then execute:

$ rails generate redactor2:install

or

$ rails generate redactor2:install --devise

# --devise option generate user_id attribute for asset(Imeg, File) models. 
# For more details show Devise gem.
# Now, Pictures and Documents uploading available only for signed in users
# All uploaded files will stored with current user_id
# User will choose only own uploaded Images and Files

$ rake db:migrate

Mongoid + carrierwave

Add this lines to your application's Gemfile:

gem "carrierwave"
gem "carrierwave-mongoid", :require => "carrierwave/mongoid"
gem "mini_magick"

$ rails generate redactor2:install

Include the Redactor assets

Add to your application.js:

  //= require redactor2_rails

Add to your application.css:

  *= require redactor2_rails

Initialize Redactor

For each textarea that you want to use with Redactor, add the "redactor" class and ensure it has a unique ID:

<%= text_area_tag :editor, "", :class => "redactor", :rows => 40, :cols => 120 %>

Custom Your redactor

If you need change some config in redactor, you can

$ rails generate redactor2:config

Then generate app\assets\redactor2_rails\config.js.

See the Redactor Documentation for a full list of configuration options.

If You Want To setup a new language in Redactor you should do two things:

In you file app\assets\redactor2_rails\config.js set option

"lang":'ru'

and

Add to your application.js:

//= require redactor2_rails/langs/ru

Setting a max image size with carrierwave

If you want to set a maximum image size used when a user uploads an image via carrierwave, open the uploader file and add add the following:

# app/uploaders/redactor2_rails_picture_uploader.rb:33

process :resize_to_limit => [500, -1]

The above example will set the image to have a maximum width of 500px.

Using plugins

This gem comes bundled with several Redactor plugins:

  • Fullscreen
  • Clips
  • Text direction

Full details of these can be found at Redactor Plugins

To include all the plugins just add to your application.js:

    //= require redactor2_rails/plugins

and add to your application.css:

    *= redactor2_rails/plugins

If you would prefer to pick and choose which plugins to include you can add for example:

  //= require redactor2_rails/plugins/clips

After including the desired plugins they can be configured in the redactor config file as normal.

To add it into the editor just add 'plugins' attributes to config.js file and specify which ones do you want to use:

  $('.redactor').redactor(
    { "plugins": ['fullscreen',
                'textdirection',
                'clips']
    });

Defining a Devise User Model

By default redactor2_rails uses the User model.

You may use a different model by:

  1. Run a migration to update the user_id column in the
  2. Overriding the user class in an initializer.
  3. Overriding the authentication helpers in your controller.

Create a new Migration: rails g rename_user_id_to_new_user_id

# db/migrate/...rename_user_id_to_new_user_id.rb

class RenameUserIdToNewUserId < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    rename_column :redactor2_assets, :user_id, :admin_user_id
  end

  def down
    rename_column :redactor2_assets, :admin_user_id, :user_id
  end
end

# config/initializers/redactor2.rb
# Overrides the user class

module RedactorRails
  def self.devise_user
    %s(admin_user) # name of your user class
  end

  # You may override this to support legacy schema.
  # def self.devise_user_key
  #   "#{self.devise_user.to_s}_id".to_sym
  # end
end

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  ...

  def redactor2_authenticate_user!
    authenticate_admin_user! # devise before_filter
  end

  def redactor2_current_user
    current_admin_user # devise user helper
  end
end

Statement

redactor2_rails base on SammyLin/redactor-rails project.

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

You may use Redactor for non-commercial websites for free, however, we do not guarantee any technical support.

Redactor has 3 different licenses for commercial use. For details please see License Agreement.