Rails - Sep 2005 - making Ajax spellcheck available to all forms

Hi - I''ve implemented the Ajax spellchecker as so excellently described
by
Dee Zsombor at
http://deezsombor.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-build-ajax-ed-spellchecker-with.html

I''d like to go one step further and make this Ajax spellcheck available
to
all text fields in forms.  

The flow would be that there''s a "spellcheck" button beside
the field.
Clicking on it takes you (popup maybe?) to the spellchecker, with the
contents of the text field already spellchecked (ie drop downs of
alternatives there)  Once the user has done all the correcting they click
"done" and are returned to the original form, with the new version of
the
text in place.

I can see how to do this in a hacky way - anyone got a neat solution?  It
seems to me that if we could do this it would make a neat little component
that many of us could use.

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Robert Jones

Robert,

Interaction wise it might be very (perhaps too) complicated. However you
are right: something very useful is lurking here.

I think first step would be releasing the raspell as gem. I have
contacted the author, Matthias Veit about this, as gem would be better
supported this way rather than us doing a mere packaging.

Myself had some trouble compiling raspell on FreeBSD, needing some
manual hacking around makefiles. Judging by some comments from rails
weblog, at least one other user had trouble compiling for Tiger.

If anyone had similar problems please report it, on this thread. Not all
platforms are available to me. I have produced a simple test gem, that
works for us on Slackware.


Eszter

Robert Jones wrote:
> Hi - I''ve implemented the Ajax spellchecker as so excellently
described by
> Dee Zsombor at
>
http://deezsombor.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-build-ajax-ed-spellchecker-with.html
> 
> I''d like to go one step further and make this Ajax spellcheck
available to
> all text fields in forms.  
> 
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