Getting AcionText::RichText to render

[mhenrixon]

I would expect the following to work:

div(class: "article-content", data_controller: "highlight") do
  render @article.content
end

Instead, I get the following: Missing partial action_text/rich_texts/_rich_text

web    | ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing partial action_text/rich_texts/_rich_text with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:raw, :erb, :html, :builder, :ruby]}.
web    |
web    | Searched in:
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/Code/mhenrixon/cosmos/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/gems/view_component-3.10.0/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/gems/turbo-rails-2.0.0.pre.rc.2/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/gems/good_job-3.23.0/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/gems/lookbook-2.2.1/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/gems/hotwire-livereload-1.3.1/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/gems/letter_opener_web-2.0.0/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/bundler/gems/rails-3d132b855541/actiontext/app/views"
web    |   * "/Users/mhenrixon/.gem/ruby/3.3.0/bundler/gems/rails-3d132b855541/actionmailbox/app/views"
web    | ):
web    |
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:83:in `block (3 levels) in template'
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:82:in `block (2 levels) in template'
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:74:in `block in template'
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:26:in `template'
web    | config/initializers/action_controller_flash.rb:36:in `render'
web    | app/controllers/articles_controller.rb:60:in `show'

I think the lookup should be action_text/contents/_content

If I add the view that is missing or change to force a specific view, I get the following error:

render partial: "action_text/contents/content", locals: { content: @article.content }

web    | ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `render_attachments' for an instance of ActionText::RichText):
web    |
web    | Causes:
web    | NoMethodError (undefined method `render_attachments' for an instance of ActionText::RichText)
web    |     1: <%= render_action_text_content(content) %>
web    |
web    | app/views/action_text/rich_texts/_rich_text.html.erb:1
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:83:in `block (3 levels) in template'
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:82:in `block (2 levels) in template'
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:74:in `block in template'
web    | app/views/articles/article.rb:26:in `template'
web    | config/initializers/action_controller_flash.rb:36:in `render'
web    | app/controllers/articles_controller.rb:60:in `show'

This is super to fix because I can not completely eliminate ERB.

[mhenrixon]

An attempt that seems to work is the following:

div(class: "article-content trix-content", data_controller: "highlight") do
  unsafe_raw(@article.content.to_trix_html)
end

I don't think this will render any attachments though, I'll have to check that.

[joeldrapper]

@mhenrixon if you could set up a new minimal Rails app that reproduces this issue and send me a link to the repo, that would help a lot with debugging on my side.

[mhenrixon]

Here @joeldrapper https://github.com/mhenrixon/action-phlex

[joeldrapper]

Thank you, I’ll take a look. 👀

[mhenrixon]

The trick is the following:

@article.content.body.to_s

So the body wraps ActionText::Content or something which has all the data needed to render everything correctly and you just have to call .to_s at the end and it will render everything for you.

Super weird rails decision if you ask me but no one questions this as long as you stick with erb html rendering.