ActionText

Rails 6 comes with ActionText which allows you to edit and display rich text in your applications.

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8 Lessons | 1h 41m | Intermediate

12m

How to use ActionText in Rails 6

Mar 07, 2019

A quick introduction to using ActionText in your Rails apps for editing and displaying rich text plus uploading files

20m

@mentions for Users with ActionText in Rails 6

Mentioning Users with an @mention is a super common feature. Trix and ActionText are now part of Rails 6 which means we can very easily add support for tagging users with @mentions and other custom attachments in your applications.

11m

Notifications for ActionText User Mentions

Jun 05, 2019 Pro

When you at-mention a user, you typically want to send email or other types of notifications to alert that user they were mentioned. In this episode, we'll look into ActionText Content to see how we can extract the user mention attachments and do that.

11m

How To Update ActionText Attachments

Jul 11, 2022 Pro

Rails 7 changed the way ActionText attachments work, so we'll be writing a Rake task to walk through each of the embeds and update them with the correct Signed GlobalID.

12m

How to Modify & Customize ActionText HTML Output in Rails

Jul 25, 2022 Pro

Ever needed to modify the HTML that ActionText renders? We can override the ActionText::Content class to modify the way HTML formatting works to customize the output. For example, we can add rel="noopener nofollow" to any anchor tags in the content.

10m

Custom ActionText Sanitizer & Scrubber in Rails

Nov 14, 2022 Pro

ActionText is secure by default, but sometimes you need more control over the sanitization. That's where custom sanitizers and scrubbers come in and we'll learn how to use these.

Adding a Highlight Button to Trix

Jun 12, 2023

In this episode, we will extend Trix by adding a text highlighting feature.

16m

Adding Locals to ActionText Rendering

Aug 18, 2026 Pro

ActionText generally renders behind the scenes, but what if we need more control over how attachments are rendered? Let's explore adding local variables to ActionText attachment partials.

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