# Best rich text editor and date/time picker control in RoR?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 15, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903 "2007-06-15T06:00:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chamnap)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903/1 "2007-06-15T06:00:28Z")

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Hello,

I am wondering which are the best rich text editor and date/time  
picker control in Ruby on Rails? Any idea…?

Thanks  
Chamnap

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**Author:** ![chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chamnap)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903/2 "2007-07-09T09:07:27Z")

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Hi Chamnap,

have you tried “CalendarDateSelect” for date picking? It’s fully  
integrated with rails form builders, its simple to use, and fairly  
lightweight. Also, it supports date/datetime.

[http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/](http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/)

For rich text editor, I don’t know what’s the best, but TinyMCE and  
fckeditor are pretty popular nowadays.

Tim

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**Author:** ![chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chamnap)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903/3 "2007-07-09T11:42:40Z")

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The classical TinyMCE opensource editor is very simple to integrate  
into your views (1 copy-paste of a JS and a JS link). I transforms the  
textareas you want into rich editors (HTML generated).  
Juste take a look: [http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/](http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/)

aurels

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**Author:** ![chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chamnap)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903/4 "2007-07-09T14:23:26Z")

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It’s possible 😉

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**Author:** ![chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chamnap)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903/5 "2007-07-10T03:43:19Z")

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Thanks

Chamnap

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**Author:** ![chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@chamnap](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chamnap)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-rich-text-editor-and-date-time-picker-control-in-ror/106903/6 "2007-07-09T12:59:51Z")

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On 09 Jul 2007, at 11:41, Aurélien Malisart wrote:

> The classical TinyMCE opensource editor is very simple to integrate  
> into your views (1 copy-paste of a JS and a JS link). I transforms the  
> textareas you want into rich editors (HTML generated).  
> Juste take a look: [http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/](http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/)

… and the html it spits out in most cases is ugly as hell.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt