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Marksmith

#512 Jun 1, 2025 free

Easily add Markdown support to your Rails applications with Marksmith. This isn't a drop-in replacement to ActionText, but can be used with text or blob columns. Marksmith integrates easily with ActiveStorage for handling file uploads. In this episode, we'll explore setting up Marksmith and some best practices.

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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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Using Action Text in a Rails 5.2 Application

#167 Jan 6, 2019 free

With Rails 6.0 is around the corner, Action Text has been merged into the Rails repository. However, it can still be used on a Rails 5.2 application while we wait for its official release.

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SimpleMDE and ActiveStorage

#124 Mar 11, 2018 pro

SimpleMDE is a great WYSIWYG Markdown Editor, but lacks the ability to handle image uploads. In this episode, we look at adding ActiveStorage and some JavaScript to handle image uploading.