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Asked: 2026-05-20T20:25:56+00:00

I need to develop a simple webapp that allows the user to highlight a

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I need to develop a simple webapp that allows the user to highlight a couple of words in the file (text or HTML) that he can load from the screen, and then right-click and have some options show up to choose from.
When she chooses the option , the text of it is added to the file shown on the screen,right after the highlighted text, inside some parenthesis or similar.

Is Ruby on Rails a suitable platform for developing such an app?

Is Grails more suitable ?
(Assuming similar level of knowledge in Groovy and Ruby)

In both cases, I’d appreciate pointers to gems/libraries I should be looking into for these tasks.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not 100% sure I understand your requirements, but have you considered integrating a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor into your web app? Something like CKeditor is open-source, and effective.

    You could load the file into the editor and setup a custom context menu like described in part 6 of this tutorial. So when the user right clicks in the editor, the custom context menu item could be configured to facilitate the insertion you are looking to accomplish.

    I agree with corroded’s advice to choose a language/framework you know and can work better in, as you’ll be able to achieve your desired functionality through a variety of languages/frameworks.

    Best of Luck!

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