Action Text support on Rails 6.0

[yopaz-giapnh]

Action Text is one of the most awesome feature that introduced in Rails 6.0. But I could not use the Action Text with Active Admin. Does Active Admin itself support it? If doesn't, please consider to support the function in the near feature.

[nayadd]

Any news on this one? I found several different ways to implement this, but would love official support from the gem!

[deivid-rodriguez]

Hi, no, sorry! I never used Action Text myself. Any links to guides on how to set it up, how to use it, and how you would like it supported in ActiveAdmin would be appreciated. Thanks!

[troya2]

There's a SO article on integrating it with Active Admin (links to this issue, actually).
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57879823/how-do-i-use-rails-6-actiontext-fields-in-an-activeadmin-form-block

[MaximeRobion]

Hey, @deivid-rodriguez Action Text is really nice to use to be fair. You can read about it here: https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_text_overview.html.

It is a really quick setup and goes well in hand with Active Storage. The story is that it started as an open-source project from the dev team at Basecamp (see the project page here), and worked so well that they integrated it in Rails 6.0.

2 things which would be really nice with an active admin integration would be :

• the display of rich text in the index view. At the moment, active admin renders body so you can't get the information right away about what was written in the field. (see picture)

• The form integration for creation and edition of a rich text area. At the moment, this is what you get in the edit form for instance :

Since trix editor/action text create a new div called trix-content, the edition in Active Admin become particularly tricky.

Cheers and thanks for the great work you do!

[johnnncodes]

+1 for adding support for Action Text

[TylerSangster]

+1

[matthewblack]

+1

[vladfreel]

+1

[alfuken]

2 years, no news? Huh...

[yopaz-giapnh]

@alfuken how many likes should I get before this issue become in progress :)))

[alfuken]

@alfuken how many likes should I get before this issue become in progress :)))

dunno, but you got mine! 👍 ;)

[javierjulio]

We have someone on the team that has already expressed an interest in this so we'll try to address this separately, thank you. On the default branch we've migrated to TailwindCSS and removed SASS for v4.