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Views
Ruby on Rails includes a view system that generates the pages rendered by the browser. For each URL that is processed, a particular view file is rendered. This view can be wrapped in a special view, called a layout, that provides the overall page structure. Parts of the view can be provided by partials, which are view files that are included by reference in other view files and allow common components to be used without duplication.Using Yahoo's User Interface Library Treeview in Rails
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- TinyMCE WYSIWYG Text Editor on Rails
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Observe Field and Radio Buttons in Rails
How to get an effect like observe_field to function on radio buttons.
- HTML Editor or Rich Text Editor for Your Ruby on Rails Apps
- BBCode with Ruby on Rails, Part 2
- BBCode with Ruby on Rails, Part 1
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BBCode with Ruby on Rails, Part 1
Implementing the BBCode markup in a commenting system for Rails.
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editable_content_tag: The in_place_editor for Rails 2.0
Describes an approach to creating an in-place editor that is compatible with RESTful controllers, using JSON to transfer data.
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A Rails HOWTO: Simplify In-Place Editing with Script.aculo.us
Building our own in-place editor helpers to gain more control than with the standard Rails helpers.
- Using Rails in_place_editor and in_place_editor_field
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Textile (markup language)
This Wikipedia article includes links to Textile implementations in many languages.
- Mini reviews of 19 Ruby template engines
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Documentation (8)
- How to use collection_select with HABTM
Documents the simple but obscure syntax to make a multiple-select select widget work properly with a HABTM association. - Textile Reference
A comprehensive guide to Textile markup syntax. - Browser-based Textile renderer
Want to try out a textile expression? Enter it on this page and it will show you the resulting HTML markup. - Textile 2.0
Quick reference and a web-based Textile-to-HTML converter for testing. - Yahoo! UI Library: Rich Text Editor
Rich Text Editor built within the Yahoo Javascript Library. - WYMeditor - web-based XHTML editor
A new alternative for WYSIWYG editors. Uses JQuery. - Ajax In Place Editor
Scriptaculous in-place editor widget documentation. - AJAX In Place Rich Editor: In place AJAX-powered WYSIWYG editor
Using the great libraries Prototype 1.6, Script.Aculo.Us 1.8 and TinyMCE 3.1, IPRE provide a really easy way to implement an in place AJAX-powered editor using WYSIWYG.
Groups (1)
- Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs
Forum for discussion of Prototype, Scriptaculous, and other Rails spinoffs.
Screencasts (20)
- Railscasts - Cleaning Up the View
- Railscasts - Customize Field Error
- Railscasts - Looping Through Flash
- Railscasts - Simplify Views with Rails 2.0
- Railscasts - Multibutton Form
- Railscasts - Simple Search Form
- Railscasts - Complex Forms Part 1
- Railscasts - Complex Forms Part 2
- Railscasts - Complex Forms Part 3
- Railscasts - Update through Checkboxes
- Railscasts - HABTM Checkboxes
- Railscasts - Markaby in Helper
- Railscasts - Custom Helper Modules
- Railscasts - Blocks in View
- Railscasts - Layouts and content_for
- Railscasts - All About Layouts
- RJS Templates
- Railscasts - RJS Tips
- Railscasts - Debugging RJS
- Railscasts - AJAX with RJS
Software (22)
- FCKEditor Plugin for Rails
This plug-in simplifies the use of the FCKeditor, an open-source, JavaScript, WYSIWYG HTML editor, in Rails applications. - BlogFish: tooltip.js
Javascript function to add a tooltip when the user hovers over certain items. Uses Prototype and includes Rails helpers. - Pretty Accessible Forms
Rails plugin to implement the pretty accessible forms design from A List Apart. - WYM on Rails
Plugin for integrating the WYM editor into Rails. - ActiveScaffold
ActiveScaffold is a plugin that dynamically generates Ajax-based scaffolds that understand model associations and are customizable via configuration statements. - Custom Scaffold for Rails
A plugin that replaces the view code produced by the standard Rails scaffold with a view that explicitly references each column, rather than iterating over all the columns, so it is much easier to customize. - acts_as_textiled
Plugin that makes using Textile as simple as it can be. The specified model field is always interpreted as Textile when displayed, except when in a form (for editing). - Textile Editor Helper
Plugin that shows a simple toolbar over Textile text-entry areas, so you can, for example, click a Word-like "B" icon for bold and it will wrap the selected text in asterisks. (Display is still not wysiwyg, however.) - RedCloth [Textile Humane Web Text for Ruby]
Ruby gem for translating Textile markup to HTML. - ZiYa
Rails plug for creating Flash-based charts. - MasterView
An alternative template engine for Rails applications. - MasterView - Rails-optimized (x)html friendly template engine
- Liquid Templating Language
Official homepage for Liquid Templating engine (originally extracted from Shopify). "Ruby library for rendering safe templates which cannot affect the security of the server they are rendered on." - Better Partials Plugin for Ruby on Rails
A nice simplification for rendering partials. - activecalendar
- SeeSaw | Rails Widgets
- Put Flexigrid on Rails
Plugin for Flexigrid JavaScript library, which enables grids with "click on header" sorting, pagination, and more. - Improved in_place_editor
- In_place_controls
- super_in_place_controls plug-in for Rails 2.0
- in_place_editing plugin does not work with CSRF protection and does not evaluate the RJS response
Rails Trac ticket describing the CSRF problem with the existing in_place_editor and a proposed patch. - /plugins/in_place_editing
The "official", but currently flawed, in-place editing plugin for Rails.
Cheat Sheets (3)
- Ruby on Rails Cheatsheets
Nice cheatsheets for various aspects of Rails, including Active Record validation errors, migrations, form helpers, and Action Mailer. - Textile Quick Reference
- RJS Demistified With Pretty Colors!
RJS cheat sheet
Blogs
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WebORB Blog
Blog from the authors of the WebORB, a Rails plugin for connecting to Flash and Flex user interfaces. (Also available for PHP and other server-side platforms.)
- CSRF - An underestimated attack method
