DHH announces Action Text, a big new feature coming to Rails 6:

It’s an integration between the Trix editor, Active Storage-backed file and image processing, and a text-processing flow that ties it all together. With Action Text, you really shouldn’t ever have to impoverish your users with a vanilla textarea ever again!

I’m a bit torn on this. On one hand, Trix is a good tool and many (most?) web apps need rich text editing at some point in their lifespan. On the other hand, it’s difficult to build general purpose features like this that span both the front and back ends of the stack.

Rails 6 is a ways away (with betas starting in early 2019), so we’ll have to wait and see. Regardless of whether this particular feature pans out, it’s great to see the Rails team continue to innovate and try new things.