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Step by Step guide to test Rails ActiveText

Adrien Poly on October 04, 2018

🚧❌ EDITED ActionText is now fully released in Rails 6 don't follow this guide that was written for the preview version You might have se...
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Colin Rubbert •

With regards to adding action_text to an existing app, for instance if you already had:

post.rb
:title,   t.string
:content, t.text

Would you have to run a migration to remove post :content and then implement has_rich_text :content to the model?

If you just add the has_rich_text field does it just update those paths, ignore the previous model schema, or something else?

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Adrien Poly •

has_rich_text adds a polymorphic link to your table. This means that the rich text content is not stored in the posts table but in a dedicated polymorphic table for rich content.

Therefore in your case, you would need to migrate your content to this new table.

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Phil Nash •

This is a great guide, thanks for putting it together. I've never worked with absolute bleeding edge Rails like this before, so this is really useful.

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Adrien Poly •

Thanks it was a BIG discovery for me too 😀