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Hi Chris, thanks for the video. I was wondering how do I truncate the text on the index.html page? I only want to show 130 characters of the content (previously body).

<%= truncate(blog_post.content, :length 130) %> no longer works.

Thanks

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Maybe it's length:

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Hi Greg, thanks for that. Once updated, that throws up a 'NoMethodError in BlogPosts#index' error.

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After a bit more playing around, managed to solve it. Thanks again @Greg S.

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you can do
<%= truncate(blog_post.content.to_plain_text, length: 130) %>

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In my case, I can upload images but they fail afterwards. Something about vips

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You're probably running into the issue listed in
edgerails

from the site -
If there's an attached resource within content field, it might not show properly unless you have libvips/libvips42 package installed locally on your machine. Check their install docs on how to get it."

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To make that editor work in any way shape, or form I had to add following line to the head in the application.html.erb

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/trix@2.0.0/dist/trix.umd.min.js"></script>
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Thanks! Fixed it for me.

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Helped for me too, but IDK why we should import that tag if it is loaded into js app. 0.0

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I don't know what problem was for you, but fixed mine too! I believe I ran the same steps as the video, but the rich text field wasn't being rendered, this fixed for me, thanks

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Yeah, without it, the Content rich text area is actually empty for me. and you can't do anything. The Rich text editor is not rendereed at all. I am using Ubuntu environment.
So, the script actually fixs it. It seems that the install command from rails is not doing the correct job (including the misconfigured css).
Thanks Patryk!

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To make "content" field to look good in the form without deleting "@import 'actiontext.css';" line from ../stylesheets/application.tailwind.css, you can just run this command in your rails project root directory:
rails tailwindcss:build

This command should fix update styles correctly. And if you plan to make any more changes to styles or styles files, you can run:
rails tailwindcss:watch
to update any styles changes automatically.

Hope this helps

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Chris does not cover this in the video but I thought it was neat. If you want to see your video attachments actually play and not just have an image preview, you just need to modify a couple of files.
app/views/active_storage/blobs/_blob.html.erb

# change this
<% if blob.representable? %>
# to
<% if blob.video? %>
  <video controls="true" width="100%" preload="metadata">
    <source src="<%= rails_blob_url(blob) %>" type="<%= blob.content_type %>"></source>
  </video>
<% elsif blob.representable? %>

AND
config/application.rb

# add this to inside the class
config.after_initialize do
  ActionText::ContentHelper.allowed_attributes.add "style"
  ActionText::ContentHelper.allowed_attributes.add "controls"

  ActionText::ContentHelper.allowed_tags.add "video"
  ActionText::ContentHelper.allowed_tags.add "audio"
  ActionText::ContentHelper.allowed_tags.add "source"
end
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When I add "rich" to form.text_area, the content box is no longer active. i cant type into it, i cant tab into it. its just a visual piece. "bold, italics, etc" do not appear. it does not seem to work.

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