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Rich text format editor in rails 4

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I am looking for a rich text format editor that is compatible with rails 4, any good ones out there, I want to make beautiful text-areas with rich text.

cheers

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If you don't need anything too complicated, Basecamp just released their new text editor that I found to be really good. It's called Trix. https://github.com/basecamp/trix

There's also CKEditor and TinyMCE that have been used by a lot of people in the past. I don't particularly like them, but they do a lot more than Trix.

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Thanks chris had tried out cke and its was a bit of an overkill in the wrong direction will checkout Trix... Need something simple

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It's pretty much the most awesome one I've seen. I'm going to have to do an episode on it soon.

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Check out this gem if you'd like an 'easy' way to integrate the editor.

https://github.com/maclover7/trix

I've used it in a few of my projects.

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Thanks Andrew and Chris .. Trix does it for me

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I have used this one in the past, pretty cool https://github.com/froala/wysiwyg-rails and also https://github.com/summernote/summernote-rails

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Since I started to blog with Jekyll, Markdown seem to be the most convenient way to edit text.
I have used an editor like the one used in the Ghost blogging platform for a client rails project and it worked perfectly.
Maybe worth considering in the future https://github.com/timsayshey/Ghost-Markdown-Editor.
I find it way easier to use that any text editor.

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The ghost editor looks pretty sweet too! Thanks for sharing that.

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Seems like Trix is having a lot of problems and lack of support for image and image uploading, I have personally ran into a bunch of diffrent issues with Trix and it seems their core does not want to implement a lot of nessacary features such as image orantation and image resizing.

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