wiki_column

wiki_column is a Ruby on Rails plugin that adds simple wiki functionality to your app. Wiki column allows you to specify a model that will act as your wiki storage, but then you can define any column to be a wiki column.

For instance, if you have a Product model that has a description. You could define description as a wiki_column, you could then use wiki syntax in that field and it would be formatted as such, including links to your wiki.

wiki_column uses RedCloth for basic formatting.

wiki_column is the result of web development work at Assay Depot.

Installation

First you have to have RedCloth installed

sudo gem install RedCloth

Next, install the plugin

./script/plugin install http://wiki-column.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wiki_column

Now generate your wiki model

./script/generate scaffold_resource WikiPage slug:string body:text created_at:datetime updated_at:datetime

Next, in your WikiPage show.rhtml, change

<%=h @wiki_page.content %>

to

<%= @wiki_page.wiki_content %>

Finally, add a new wiki resource to your routes.rb file.

  map.resources :wiki, :controller => 'wiki_pages'

Formatting

You can use all the standard textile formatting commands. Additionally, links are to other wiki pages should be surrounded by []. For example, to link to a page with the slug ProductInformation, use the following:

[ProductInformation]