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A new alternative for WYSIWYG editors. Uses JQuery.

A comprehensive guide to Textile markup syntax.

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.

Rich Text Editor built within the Yahoo Javascript Library.

Want to try out a textile expression? Enter it on this page and it will show you the resulting HTML markup.

Quick reference and a web-based Textile-to-HTML converter for testing.

Scriptaculous in-place editor widget documentation.

Documents the simple but obscure syntax to make a multiple-select select widget work properly with a HABTM association.

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.)

Forum for discussion of Prototype, Scriptaculous, and other Rails spinoffs.

A nice replacement to ERB

Rails plug for creating Flash-based charts.

Rails Trac ticket describing the CSRF problem with the existing in_place_editor and a proposed patch.

Ruby gem for translating Textile markup to HTML.

A nice simplification for rendering partials.

Javascript function to add a tooltip when the user hovers over certain items. Uses Prototype and includes Rails helpers.

ActiveScaffold is a plugin that dynamically generates Ajax-based scaffolds that understand model associations and are customizable via configuration statements.

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).

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.”

The “official”, but currently flawed, in-place editing plugin for Rails.

Plugin for Flexigrid JavaScript library, which enables grids with “click on header” sorting, pagination, and more.

Plugin for integrating the WYM editor into Rails.

An alternative template engine for Rails applications.

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.

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.)

Rails plugin to implement the pretty accessible forms design from A List Apart.

This plug-in simplifies the use of the FCKeditor, an open-source, JavaScript, WYSIWYG HTML editor, in Rails applications.

Nice cheatsheets for various aspects of Rails, including Active Record validation errors, migrations, form helpers, and Action Mailer.

RJS cheat sheet