# Add an editor on my application

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/add-an-editor-on-my-application/156512>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 29, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/add-an-editor-on-my-application/156512 "2008-12-29T10:52:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johny)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/add-an-editor-on-my-application/156512/1 "2008-12-29T10:52:17Z")

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Does anyone have a good suggestion for the best editor that can I embed  
on my application…

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**Author:** ![johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johny)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/add-an-editor-on-my-application/156512/2 "2008-12-29T19:19:18Z")

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+1 for Textile or Markdown (my preference) … try looking up  
rdiscount if you want to use Markdown, I’m sure there are better  
options out there.

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**Author:** ![johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johny)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/add-an-editor-on-my-application/156512/3 "2008-12-29T16:12:08Z")

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Hi

I have limited experience with FCKEditor – [http://www.fckeditor.net/](http://www.fckeditor.net/)

and slightly more exp with tinymce – [http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/](http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/)

but in my experience the better solution is to use textile →   
[http://redcloth.org/](http://redcloth.org/) &  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RedClothsince](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RedClothsince) they are simpler  
and then harder for users to break. TinyMCE imho  
gives the user to many options and since most people are not good with  
layout they often make a bigger mess than if you gave them something  
like  
redcloth/textile

Regards

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Johny ben \<

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**Author:** ![johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@johny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johny)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/add-an-editor-on-my-application/156512/4 "2009-01-08T09:33:20Z")

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Thank you for your reply guys…  
I choose fckeditor because it is free and suite to all i need…