Displaying existing content in Rails 5.2 with ActionText

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I have upgraded my app to rails 5.2 and inclined to use ActionText since old trix-editor/gem is no longer working. Now new posts display their "descriptions" but how can I display my old posts' DESCRIPTIONS with the new installed ActionText?

post.rb has_rich_text :description

posts_controller.rb ...params.require(:post).permit(:description)

_form.html.erb <%= f.rich_text_area :description %>

show.html.erb <%= @post.description %>

Descriptions are only fetching from new records in ActionText but not displaying from existing "description" columns for old posts

actiontext ruby-on-rails-5 ruby-on-rails
2 Answers

I had a similar issue and I couldn't find a clean solution in the rails repo or anywhere. As a workaround, in your case, I would try:

show.html.erb: .
<%= @post.try(:description).body || @post[:description] %>

That wont solve the issue, but it would help you to populate old post values.

user_81419910

This answer worked for me. It also has the added bonus of cleaning up your database of the tables used for the normal (non-rich) text content.

"Assuming there's a 'content' in your model and that's what you want to migrate, first, add to your model: "

has_rich_text :content

"then create a migration"

rails g migration MigratePostContentToActionText

class MigratePostContentToActionText < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0]
  include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper
  def change
    rename_column :posts, :content, :content_old
    Post.all.each do |post|
      post.update_attribute(:content, simple_format(post.content_old))
    end
    remove_column :posts, :content_old
  end
end

You can find the original solution I used here https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/35002#issuecomment-562311492

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