[LRUG] [Help Request] Completely stumped about integrating "Dante" WYSIWYG into my Rails app

[Jon Wood]

My guess is that yes, it regularly posts as you make changes. You should be
able to see if that's the case by watching the logs in log/development.log
for requests to your save endpoint.

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, 08:12 Jesse Waites, <jesse.waites at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This may be a little long, please bear with me.
>
> I have a dead simple hobby rails app spun up with Devise. I have users,
> users have many Stories. Those associations are done, easy peasy. I am now
> trying to integrate a Medium.com style WYSIWYG editor called Dante into a
> hobby app.
>
> This is the editor:
> https://github.com/michelson/Dante
>
> This is the demo in action:
> http://michelson.github.io/Dante/
>
> I have managed to get the editor on the page, but for the life of me I
> cannot seem to figure out how to get it to actually save the content.
>
> This is a link to my repo:
> https://github.com/piratebroadcast/bckpckrs/
>
> The integration of the editor is on this page:
>
> https://github.com/piratebroadcast/bckpckrs/blob/master/app/views/stories/new.html.erb
>
> The only reference anywhere online I've found is *me* trying to figure out
> how to integrate this thing almost a year ago:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33656321/integrating-dante-ysiwyg-medium-style-editor-into-a-rails-form
>
> There, a developer answers that I should somehow integrate the content
> from the editor into a simple_form form. I'm not so sure about that, as the
> editor *Seems* to have an upload URL and can so it itself.
>
> <script type="text/javascript">    editor = new Dante.Editor(      {        el: "#editor",        upload_url: "/images.json", //it expect an url string in response like /your/server/image.jpg or http://app.com/images/image.jpg        store_url: "/save" //post to save      }    );    editor.start()  </script>
>
>
>
> I am completely baffled as to how the system would know when you are done
> "writing" your story into the editor. Does it POST constantly?
>
> Any and all tips would really be appreciated.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> --
> Jesse Waites
> Web Developer
> JesseWaites.com
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