Hey Tadas,

I agree, the overriding isn't the best approach, but was necessary to get the tiny_mce gem working properly, and simplify the installation procedure.

If you look here: http://github.com/kete/tiny_mce/blob/master/lib/tiny_mce.rb#L24

You'll see that it should only be upgrading the TinyMCE source if the tiny_mce.js file has changed. If it's doing it every restart, sounds like it might be broken. If you're familiar with Ruby, I'd gladly accept a patch to do one of the following (or both if you feel up to it):

• Fix the check of FileUtils.identical? which sounds like it's failing in your case
• Add a TinyMCE.disable_auto_update! method, which sets a class var, and then use that in the check

Regards
Kieran

Hey Tadas,

We have a rough idea for allowing custom plugins to be inserted into the javascripts/tiny_mce directory, without being overwritten. The idea is still being worked on. Any thoughts are welcome.

Essentially, each TinyMCE editor plugin gets put into a gem, e.g. tiny_mce-my_plugin. You then add that gem below the gem line for tiny_mce in environment.rb. Each gem will append to a TinyMCE.plugins array, e.g.

TinyMCE.plugins << MyPlugin

When tiny_mce runs and puts the tinymce editor source in place, it'll then loop over each plugin, and call install on each plugin, e.g. MyPlugin.install. Each plugin class might subclass TinyMCE::Plugin, which will have a default install method of taking lib/assets/* and copying them into place.

That covers the following cases:

• User simply wants a plugin inserted, so they put the source in lib/assets folder of a gem, have a blank plugin class which appends to TinyMCE.plugins (in lib/my_plugin.rb) and then do config.gem for that gem.
• User wants to edit the source of tiny_mce. They can write a complex install method to do what they want

An example of the class:

require 'tiny_mce'
class MyPlugin << TinyMCE::Plugin
end
TinyMCE.plugins << MyPlugin

This should give it enough configurability to cover most, if not all cases where someone would need to do something to the tiny_mce structure.

Any thoughts?