# jejacks0n/mercury

Mercury Editor: The Rails WYSIWYG editor that allows embedding full page editing capabilities directly inline.

Repository: https://github.com/jejacks0n/mercury
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jejacks0n-mercury
Homepage: http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: mercury-editor, javascript, wysiwyg-editor, rails, deprecated-repo
Last push: 2023-08-15T16:11:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5593, "days_push": 1114, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2629, forks 521 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:05.521130+00:00)

## What it is
Mercury Editor is a WYSIWYG rich-text editor for Rails applications that enables full inline page editing using HTML5 contentEditable regions instead of iframes. It provides a single shared toolbar across editable regions and is built with CoffeeScript and jQuery on top of Rails 3.2.

## Use cases
- add inline wysiwyg editing to rails pages
- let users edit whole pages in place like a cms
- embed a rich text editor without iframes
- build editable regions with a shared toolbar
- replace tinymce or ckeditor in a rails app
- enable content editing directly on rendered html

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Rails 3.2 app already using Mercury
- you need full-page inline editing with contentEditable rather than iframe-based editors
- you want a single toolbar shared across multiple editable regions on a page

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the repo is deprecated and no longer maintained
- you need support for legacy browsers or non-W3C-compliant engines
- your stack is not Ruby on Rails
- you need an actively maintained editor with modern security patches

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: editor, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors, cms
- platform: browser
- tags: wysiwyg, rails, contenteditable, inline-editing, deprecated, coffeescript, jquery, web-server, javascript

## Member repositories
- jejacks0n/mercury (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.521130+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:19:39.885220+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jejacks0n/mercury (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:05.521130+00:00, sha 63ecfc72cb15)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.