Comments on: A simple Wiki with Ruby on Rails

By: Onalenna

Onalenna — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:54:11 +0000

Hi Michael, is it possible for you to adapt this tutorial for the new version of rails and ruby?

[MN: Sorry, don't have time! But if you'd like to, feel free to make the modifications!]

By: Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:18:21 +0000

Thankyou Dave! Yes, indeed, I do. Fixed.

By: Dave Bacon

Dave Bacon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:56:15 +0000

“These methods don’t do anything yet. In your browser, load the URL http://localhost:3000/page/create_page. You’ll get an error message that says “Unknown action: No action responded to create”. In fact, what has happened is that Rails parses the URL, and determines from the first part (“page”) that it should load page_controller.rb, and from the second part that it should call the display_page action.”

Don’t you mean “create_page” at the end of this paragraph?

By: Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:22:52 +0000

Sai – I think you’re probably seeing those errors because you’re using a newer version of Rails. This was written under Rails 1.2.

By: Sai Emrys

Sai Emrys — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:18:43 +0000

You had errors because the standard method names are: index show new create edit update destroy

… i.e. show, not display.

By: RK

RK — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:21:43 +0000

as john has said you need to install the plugin for inplace editor using ruby script/plugin install in_place_editing

and to make it work properly You need to apply this patch for inplace editor

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/attachment/ticket/10055/in_place_editing_should_work_with_csrf_and_rjs.patch

good article Michael

By: John Schulman

John Schulman — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:21:23 +0000

In place editing has been moved to a plugin in Rails 2. The above code will probably work if do script/plugin install in_place_editing

By: Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:53:51 +0000

I’m not eager to get caught up in arguments over definitions. I think it’s pretty clear that I’m using the term wiki very loosely here. My micro-app is in no sense a complete wiki or CMS.

In regard to the second, I wrote:

“A very simple Wiki in 42 lines of Rails code, with a few dozen extra lines of templates and stylesheets”

I don’t see that there’s any inaccuracy here.

By: Ramon Leon

Ramon Leon — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:43:34 +0000

That’s not a Wiki at all, that’s a simple CMS. A Wiki would require at a minimum CrammingWordsTogether automatically creates links to other Wiki pages whether they exist or not and if not clicking the link offers to creates the new page.

The template code is also mixed with ruby, so all the template html should be included in the line count.