Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional

© Brady Somerville, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr and Rida Al Barazi 2020

B. Somerville et al.Beginning Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5716-6_11

11. Action Text

Brady Somerville¹ , Adam Gamble², Cloves Carneiro Jr.³ and Rida Al Barazi⁴

(1)

Bowling Green, KY, USA

(2)

Gardendale, AL, USA

(3)

Hollywood, FL, USA

(4)

FONTHILL, ON, Canada

 

With version 6, Rails introduced a system to make it easy to enhance text areas with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors. Often, developers need to allow users—who may not be HTML-savvy—to edit HTML content. Rails developers have previously needed to choose from a variety of JavaScript-based WYSIWYG editors, integrate the assets into the Asset Pipeline, and connect them with the desired text area inputs. ...