textile_toolbar
Adds a handy Textile toolbar to any text area. The toolbar currently offers the following functions:
- Bold: select some text and click this button to make it bold.
- Italic: select some text and click this button to make it italic.
- Insert Hyperlink: select some text, click, enter URL, and link is inserted.
- Insert Image: click, enter image URL, and image is inserted at cursor.
A link to a Textile reference page is also shown beside the toolbar.
Installation
Install the gem directly:
sudo gem install
Or install the gem in your Rails project as a plugin:
script/plugin install git://github.com/pelargir/textile_toolbar.git
Then copy the required image and JS files into your Rails project
rake textile_toolbar:install
Usage
Use the textile_area helper where you would normally use the text_area helper. Yep, it’s that simple!
<%= text_area :article, :body %> # plain old text area
<%= textile_area :article, :body %> # text area with Textile toolbar
Form blocks are supported, letting you do this also:
<% form_for :article do |f| -%>
<%= f.textile_area :body %>
<% end -%>
Any options that can be passed to text_area can also be passed to textile_area. For example, to set the width and height:
<%= textile_area :article, :body, :rows => 5, :cols => 10 %>
Resources
Repository: github.com/pelargir/textile_toolbar/ Blog: matthewbass.com Author: Matthew Bass
Extraction work sponsored by Terralien