Agile Web Development with Rails 7

Iteration K3: Responding with Rich Text

To allow our admins to respond to support requests, we’ll need to make a new UI for them to see the requests that need a response, a way for them to provide a response, and then some code to email the customer back. We know how to do all of these things, but this is a great opportunity to learn about Action Text, which is a Rails library that allows us to easily provide a rich-text editing experience. We can use this to allow our admins to write a fully formatted response and not just plain text.

Let’s first quickly create the UI where we’ll see the support requests and edit them. This should be old hat for you by now, so we’ll go quickly. Add a new route to config/routes.rb for the index and update ...