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Im working on a Rails based application where I have the need to allow the user to format the text he enters and I would also like a way to highlight code snippets the way Stackoverflow does when I enter a code snippet.
Are there any plugins that do this.
And I would also like to know which is the RTE that is recommended and would be unobtrusive.
I see a lot of recommendations for FCKEditor but how do I implement the code snippets?
It seems like you might need something lighterweight than CKeditor. If you do choose to use CKeditor, I would use a rails plugin to install it. I use this one :
http://github.com/galetahub/rails-ckeditor
The directions are very straightforward on the git.
As for Syntax Highlighting , I recommend :
The GitHub crew loves Pygments. They are using it on many different places, including Jekyll and GitHub itself. The downside is that it’s a python library so you would need to install python and execute it as a shell task.
Syntax Highlighter, jQuery Library <– The easiest to implement
http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/
Rails3 has these plugins :
Ruby offers 3 code highlighting Gems: Ultraviolet, Syntax and CodeRay. AFAIK, the last one is the most adopted.