Jorge Manrubia

Jorge Manrubia

Principal Programmer, 37signals

Jorge is a Principal Programmer on the 37signals product team. He authored Active Record Encryption and often writes about how 37signals builds products with Rails.

Lexxy: a new text editor for Action Text

Action Text and Trix ship with Rails as a complete, batteries-included solution for rich text. In practice, many teams have hit its limits, especially when it comes to semantics, extensibility, and modern editing expectations.

In this talk, we’ll introduce Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Rails built on Meta’s Lexical framework.

We’ll explore what makes Lexxy different: clean, semantic HTML, built-in Markdown support, extensible commands and prompts, and a foundation that makes customization straightforward.

More importantly, Lexxy represents a shift in how we think about rich text in Rails: from a fixed editor to a pluggable, evolvable editing layer.