| ▲ | Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails(blog.appsignal.com) |
| 38 points by amalinovic 4 days ago | 6 comments |
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| ▲ | realty_geek 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Nice - I learnt something from that! I always wondered why rails didn't produce a competitor to WordPress. It just hasn't excelled in content management. I have an open source real estate website builder called propertywebbuilder which I am working on reviving and even with the help of Claude code the content management part of it is proving to be the most painful. |
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| ▲ | fny 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There were a bunch. Radiant CMS, Refinery, Locomotive, and others. Three problems (1) PHP is deployed all over cheap shared hosting providers (2) no one who uses a CMS cares about the backend (3) Wordpress has massive ecosystem | | |
| ▲ | evolve2k 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | My personal theory on why rails never beat out Wordpress (beyond that it has different goals), is that any attempts to make a Wordpress competitor never addressed end-user plugins. Ruby has package management called Gems. And while these are easy and powerful for a programmer to call on; they aren’t loaded using a visual interface and be able to be dynamically loaded by the end user as is the experience with Wordpress. To make a real Wordpress competitor; a system of user-self-installable plugins needs to also be created. Now that’s harder than just making a CMS but it’s fuctionality that makes many so called Wordpress competitors non-starters. |
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| ▲ | andrei_says_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | One of the reasons is that it’s too easy to build your own CMS using Rails. |
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| ▲ | Surac 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| So normally I would say markdown does not need a special editor. It is ascii in its heart. I understand the wish to render the markdown as a rich text. I use obsidian and its editor also offers such a hybrid mode. After using it for 1 month I switched to the explicit text mode and only use the rich mode if I like to present something to other people. Perhaps such a way could also benefit your editor? |
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| ▲ | loloquwowndueo 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I just put easymde on the text area. https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor |
