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Lexxy

#527 Sep 14, 2025 pro

In this episode, we look at moving from Trix to Lexxy in our Rails application using ActionText. The transition isn't completely seamless, but overall works very well.

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Action Text PDFs

#483 Nov 17, 2024 pro

In this episode, we'll look at a modern way of handling "HTML PDFs". In the past, there was wkhtmltopdf, but this has since been archived, so a new solution was needed. Our primary focus in this episode will be generating a PDF from Action Text Content.

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Adding Custom Buttons to Action Text

#310 Aug 22, 2021 pro

In this episode, we extend Action Text with an additional button to change the text colors of the WYSIWYG editor.

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Embedding Youtube Videos into Action Text with Stimulus

#243 May 24, 2020 pro

Creating attachments with Action Text can be difficult, but in this episode, we look at how we can create embedded attachments into Trix without needing a persisting the data on a separate model on our database.