Question

I used the gem to install ckeditor. As such there is no config.js in the project (there is in the actual gem folder that I don’t want to modify). The install did create a ckeditor.js in the config/initializers folder that would seem to be the correct place to put the tool bar definition. But everything I have tried to get that to work throws a variety of syntax or method not found errors. Has anyone had success with this? If so a quick example would be very helpful.

My current ckeditor.js is:

# Use this hook to configure ckeditor
if Object.const_defined?("Ckeditor")
  Ckeditor.setup do |config|

  # ==> ORM configuration
  # Load and configure the ORM. Supports :active_record (default), :mongo_mapper and
  # :mongoid (bson_ext recommended) by default. Other ORMs may be
  # available as additional gems.
  require "ckeditor/orm/active_record"

  # Allowed image file types for upload.
  # Set to nil or [] (empty array) for all file types
  # config.image_file_types = ["jpg", "jpeg", "png", "gif", "tiff"]

  # Allowed attachment file types for upload.
  # Set to nil or [] (empty array) for all file types
  # config.attachment_file_types = ["doc", "docx", "xls", "odt", "ods", "pdf", "rar", "zip", "tar", "swf"]
  end
end

Answer 1

I have the same problem as yours. At first, I followed Config rails with asset pipeline but it doesn’t work for me. Then I realized that the author of that link only create a new style of toolbar. You need to call it in the view also. That means you need to add this line

input_html => {:toolbar => 'MyToolbar'}

to make it works.

In order to test if the config.js is working, you can check the source of your webpage to see whether assets/javascripts/ckeditor/config.js is added.
Another way to check is to edit the editor color by uncommenting this line: config.uiColor = '#AADC6E'. If the color of the editor changes then it works.

I also made a stupid mistake that I include the ckeditor js files two times: once in the application.js, once in the layouts/application.html.haml file. Don’t know whether this is the source of the problem or not. You can try.

Hope this helps.