What are the best options for Rich Text Editing in Rails?

Question

I\'d like to use Rich Text Editing in place on forms in order to let admins change instructions. What are the best options for doing this?

[To be more clear - the

Answer 1

There are a number of templating languages implemented for Rails that give relatively simple syntax for markup. I've used RedCloth before, a gem implementation of Textile (http://redcloth.org/), and it's quite good. Things like Liquid (http://www.liquidmarkup.org/) are a little more powerful, allowing templates to actually include database information inline. Depending on your project's needs, both would potentially be a good fit.

Neither of these solutions alone would give an in-place rich text editor, but are a good starting place on the backend for what might be a drop-in solution. If you're only letting admins enter information though, I'd imagine they wouldn't be frightened of a little plaintext entry.