TinyMCE wrapper, that takes care of managing media files (images, videos) and links within your application.
Gem (still unofficial) is available in different repo: tinymce_fm
This plugin require “MiniMagick” to work. MiniMagick is used to create thumbnails of images.
If you want, you can also manage multimedia files (ie. videos), but then you will need to have ffmpeg installed on your machine (thumb generation).
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Install plugin using console:
rails plugin install git://github.com/galdomedia/tinymce_filemanager.git
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Run generators:
rails generate tinymce_filemanager:installation rails generate tinymce_filemanager:icons_installation
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Add include line in controller that will manage images ( controller Pages for example )
include TinymceFilemanager
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In layout (best in page <head> section) add:
<%= tinymce_managed_javascript_tag "pages" %>
where “pages” is name of controller from last step
The theme defaults to tinymce_filemanager’s “advanced” theme flavour however you can pass an additional parameter to the
tinymce_managed_javascript_tagwhich will allow you to use a custom theme or the provided simple theme.<%= tinymce_managed_javascript_tag "pages", "simple" %>
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Add tag in form:
<%= tinymce_managed_tag "some_field_name", "some field content" %>
or use builder method:
<%= f.tinymce_managed :some_field_name %>
controller “pages”:
class PagesController < ApplicationController include TinymceFilemanager def index ... end
application layout:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
...
<%= tinymce_managed_javascript_tag "pages" %>
...
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
optional theme:
The theme defaults to tinymce_filemanager’s “advanced” theme flavour however you can pass an additional parameter to the tinymce_managed_javascript_tag which will allow you to use a custom theme or the provided simple theme.
<%= tinymce_managed_javascript_tag "pages", "simple" %>
pages new view:
<h1>New page</h1>
<% form_for(@page) do |f| %>
<%= f.error_messages %>
...
<p>
<%= f.label :body %><br />
<%= f.tinymce_managed :body %>
</p>
...
<p>
<%= f.submit "Create" %>
</p>
<% end %>
<%= link_to 'Back', pages_path %>
for “pages” controller
class PagesController < ApplicationController include TinymceFilemanager # accept only jpeg and gif for images image_accept_mime_types ['image/jpeg', 'image/gif', 'image/png'] # limit image file size to 2MB image_file_size_limit 2.megabytes # accept only mpeg and flash files(swf) for media media_accept_mime_types ['video/mpeg', 'application/x-shockwave-flash'] # limit media file size to 15MB media_file_size_limit 15.megabytes #thumbs created into '_small_' subdir thumbs_subdir 'small' #images save to RAILS_ROOT/public/manager/images thumbs in RAILS_ROOT/public/manager/images/_small_ image_save_into_public_subdir 'manager/images' #images save to RAILS_ROOT/public/manager/images thumbs in RAILS_ROOT/public/manager/images/_small_ media_save_into_public_subdir 'manager/media' #classes of objects, that can be browsed through LinkBrowser (separate by comma for multiple classes) link_classes_accepted [Page,Category] ... end
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convert into gem
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link browser should accept chained queries (ie. Page.where(‘visible=?’,true).order(‘updated_at DESC’) )
Copyright © 2011 Galdomedia, Leszek Smentek, released under the MIT license