WYSIWYG recommendations for my Rails app

Question

I'm working on a Rails project and I'm in need of a user-friendly WYSIWYG. I'll say this about the type of people using it: Whatever you think of as user-friendly, perhaps think one step below that (not an insult, just a realization).

Ideally, I'd like something where one could have basic functionality (lists, links, bold, italic) and see in real-time. Kind of like OH MY GOSH IT'S RIGHT HERE IN STACK OVERFLOW AS I CREATE THIS POST.

So, um, yeah: something like this would be excellent (although I'd prefer the windows be side-by-side rather than this editor-on-top situation, but I won't be picky).

Solution 1

I'd suggest to use gem ckeditor it's really perfect solution, i used it recently in my Rails 3.2 project

Solution 2

A pretty cool and fancy one is Sir Trevor JS. There is also a gem

Solution 3

We use TinyMCE quite a bit.

No unbelievable feature set or anything, but it does have a nice jQuery integration plugin (which goes a long way for us).

The live preview functionality seems very doable.

Solution 4

If your project is non commercial you can use this

Froala

Solution 5

I've been using Bootsy. It's simple and easy to use, however I have not been able to get the "image" upload => carrierwave to store on S3 servers. But everything else with it is fantastic.

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Comments

[rumblestrut]

Thanks! I will check it out shortly and report back.

[Stef Hej]

I tried out this gem. It has fantastic front end and tons of opportunities/features but I didnt got it working in production mode because required assets could not be served with my configuration

[Stef Hej]

looks pretty cool, some toolbar features wont display with bootstrap4 alpha6

[Colper]

Its been a while since I've used it. Not sure how well it works nowadays.

[BenKoshy]

pros and cons of trix?

[barbolo]

Pro: very easy to use. Con: although it covers what you need most of the times, it doesn't support many formatting options in its toolbar.