# \[ANN\] TextAreaWithStatus 1.0 released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-textareawithstatus-1-0-released/122073>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 4, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-textareawithstatus-1-0-released/122073 "2007-12-04T11:02:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-textareawithstatus-1-0-released/122073/1 "2007-12-04T11:02:30Z")

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TextAreaWithStatus 1.0 has been released

[http://code.google.com/p/text-area-with-status/](http://code.google.com/p/text-area-with-status/)

== Overview ==

This plugin is extending builtin text\_area and text\_area\_tag helpers  
with the ability to display chars left up to a specified limit.

Basically it turns this:

```
<%= f.text_area :description, :onkeyup => "limit_chars(this, 100, $

```

(‘chars\_left’))" %\>

```
<span id="chars_left">You have <%= 100 -

```

@object.description.length %\> characters left.

into this:

```
<%= f.text_area :description, :max_chars => 100 %>

```

You can also customize the status message.

== Install & Setup ==

You can install it with:

```
script/plugin install 

```

[http://text-area-with-status.googlecode.com/svn/tags/text\_area\_with\_status](http://text-area-with-status.googlecode.com/svn/tags/text_area_with_status)

Upon install it will try to copy the needed .js file under public/  
javascripts folder and display the README. If that fails you can  
either try to manually run the install script like this:

```
ruby vendor/plugins/text_area_with_status/install.rb

```

or just manually copy the needed .js file. Please see the included  
README for more detailed instructions.