# Just want a good Rich Text Editor for RoR

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 30, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937 "2007-01-30T22:06:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/1 "2007-01-30T22:06:56Z")

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I have tried:  
TinyMCE - would not let me ‘edit’ content from the DB  
FCKEditor - could not get it installed  
widgEditor - won’t let me create content, only edit it  
RTE - couldn’t get it to work

Please if you have used a good rich text editor in a RoR CMS system  
that lets users create and edit content to and from a DB, tell me how  
and which one. Please I have been working on this for two days now ☹

Thanks - K

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/2 "2007-01-30T22:13:57Z")

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You seem to be having quite a number of problems. Are you sure your  
browser is compatible? I use Safari and none of those work properly  
for me. In our apps we’ve been using TinyMCE, but I have to use  
firefox for it to work.

Steve

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/3 "2007-01-30T22:15:58Z")

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this is on my to look at list. so I don’t know much about it…  
[http://www.xstandard.com/](http://www.xstandard.com/)

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/4 "2007-01-30T22:18:58Z")

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I am not using safari - testing on Firefox and IE. I think that I am  
having a lot of problems too - its driving me crazy.

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/5 "2007-01-30T22:31:59Z")

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then xstandard is out for me too.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/6 "2007-01-31T00:11:07Z")

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You could also try spaw,

“[http://www.solmetra.com/en/disp.php/en\_products/en\_spaw/en\_spaw\_about](http://www.solmetra.com/en/disp.php/en_products/en_spaw/en_spaw_about)”

I’ve used it with success in FF and IE

-Andy

Kim schrieb:

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/7 "2007-01-30T22:19:58Z")

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xstandard requires users to install a plugin - I don’t want to make  
them do that - so xstandard is not an option - thanks though.

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/8 "2007-01-31T01:17:14Z")

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I am going with TinyMCE - I got it to work beautifully.

I like TinyMCE because it seems less buggy than the others - it seems  
to work find for IE and Mozilla (not extensively tested yet) - easily  
configures - and it looks the best

Thanks - K

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**Author:** ![kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kim)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/just-want-a-good-rich-text-editor-for-ror/83937/9 "2007-01-31T01:29:47Z")

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I was quite happy with xinha .

I abandoned widgeditor because I found users pasting from other  
applications. Also I couldn’t see how to add undo/redo.

But I am switching to tinymce because it works in more browsers  
(Opera/Safari)

(See [stephansmap.org](http://stephansmap.org) for current xinha deployment. Note: the editor is  
invoked dynamically)

Stephan