# Tiny mce

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiny-mce/141993>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 2, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiny-mce/141993 "2008-07-02T13:03:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jaiganez)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiny-mce/141993/1 "2008-07-02T13:03:12Z")

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i ve installed tiny mce plugins…and extracted it to public/javascript  
folder…how can i write textarea tag in rhtml and how to call tinymce  
function…??? is there any link for tinymce step by step guide… ???

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**Author:** ![jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jaiganez)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiny-mce/141993/2 "2008-07-03T06:22:23Z")

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thank u very much…for ur kind reply…

still it displays textarea field not editor field …  
i m trying out this tag…in rhtml file " \<%= text\_area\_tag( ‘blog’, ‘’,  
:cols =\> “50” ,:class =\> “tiny\_mce” ) %\>

 " any suggestions pls…

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**Author:** ![jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jaiganez)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiny-mce/141993/3 "2008-07-02T14:10:07Z")

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Step 1: In yr rhtml load the necessay java scripts using  
java\_script\_include\_tag  
Step 2: have this script (change the ‘available\_fields\_list’ to yr field  
id)

Insert this script and try…

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**Author:** ![jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jaiganez)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiny-mce/141993/4 "2008-07-03T11:40:33Z")

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thank u friend…got it worked…

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**Author:** ![jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jaiganez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jaiganez)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tiny-mce/141993/5 "2008-07-03T08:02:31Z")

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if you want to have tiny\_mce appear on text area instances for your  
project, you can follow this step-by-step tutorial:

[http://www.johnwulff.com/articles/2006/05/31/tinymce-with-ruby-on-rails](http://www.johnwulff.com/articles/2006/05/31/tinymce-with-ruby-on-rails)

worked well for me.