ruby on rails, jruby, aws, ec2, exalead

We've got a couple of projects on the go right now where a Facebook style multi-select (with or without autocomplete) is a good fit for making the user interface more, err, useable.

As ever, searching around there are a number of options - especially given the number of Javascript frameworks around. For us, things are also complicated by the fact that not all our projects use the same Javascript libraries - we're not always responsible for the front-end code and as such some clients already have a dependency on, or a preference for a given library.

Let’s say we have a JavaScript function that looks like this:

function plot(options) {
  options = options || {};
  this.onUpdate = options.onUpdate;

  //
  // more code to do something interesting
  //
}

So today I found myself in need of a WYSIWYG editor for the admin pages of the site I’m currently working on. I’ve used FCKEditor and Scott Rutherford’s Rails plugin before and Chris has recently been using TinyMCE for a few of our other projects but both of them seemed too heavy, especially when the project requirements only stated a need to apply simple formatting like bold, italic and headings.