Built on top of Lexical, the powerful text editor framework from Meta.
Good HTML semantics. Paragraphs are real <p> tags, as they should be.
Markdown support: shortcuts, auto-formatting on paste.
Real-time code syntax highlighting.
Create links by pasting URLs on selected text.
Configurable prompts. Support for mentions and other interactive prompts with multiple loading and filtering strategies.
Preview attachments like PDFs and Videos in the editor.
Works seamlessly with Action Text, generating the same canonical HTML format it expects for attachments.

Lexxy editor screenshot

Documentation

Visit the documentation site.

Roadmap

This is a beta. Here's what's coming next:

Configurable editors in Action Text: Choose your editor like you choose your database.
More editing features:
- Tables
- Text highlighting
Configuration hooks.
Standalone JS package: to use in non-Rails environments.
Image galleries: The only remaining feature for full Action Text compatibility
Install task that generates the necessary JS and adds stylesheets.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub Issues. Help is especially welcome with those tagged as "Help Wanted".
For questions and general Lexxy discussion, please use the Discussions section

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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Package last updated on 26 Apr 2026

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