This Rails plugin provides some view helpers that enhance Textile support.

script/plugin install [email protected]:zeke/textile_helpers.git

As of Rails 2.3, You may also need to install the RedCloth gem..

sudo gem install redcloth

..and add this to environment.rb

config.gem "RedCloth"

The textilize_plus helper method works just like Rails’ textilize method, but with a few goodies added. It cleans up MS Word characters; repairs (some) faulty markup, such as heading tags (h1, h2, etc) not having a newline underneath them; adds an id attribute to headings based on the content of the heading.

textilize_plus(my_string)

The table_of_contents_for helper method is meant to be paired with textilize_plus. It parses your textilizable string and generate a hierarchical table of countents based on the h1, h2, and h3 headings.

<div id="main">
  <%= textilize_plus(my_string) %>
</div>

<div id="sidebar">
  <%= table_of_contents_for(my_string) %>
</div>

See lib/textile_helpers.rb for more details.

Copyright © 2009 Zeke Sikelianos, released under the MIT license