In the current incarnation of this blog I use ASP.NET and for creating the posts I use a WYSIWYG server control called FreeTextBox. For a free server control in an ASP.NET application, it works great; highly recommended.

When I entertained the idea of porting this blog to Ruby on Rails, I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to find a free WYSIWYG tool for authoring posts. From the small research that I’ve done, I know that the DojoToolkit does some of this, but I really haven’t looked into it.

Well, there may be (yet) another alternative out there, this one espcially for Rails. It uses FCKEditor. If you’re interested, take a look at these two blog posts; FCKEditor (with spellcheck!) On Rails and Integrate FCKEditor with your Ruby on Rails Application.

I’ll definitely be re-visiting these articles when I sit down and code the input post portion.