I was in the audience at Rails World 2026 for Jorge Manrubia’s talk on Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. Jorge explained why 37signals built a new editor, what Lexxy adds, and how the work opens Action Text to other editors beyond Trix, the editor that’s shipped with Action Text since day one.

In this post, I walk you through why Trix became a maintenance burden, why 37signals picked Meta’s Lexical framework over the more obvious open source contenders, and what Lexxy actually does differently inside Action Text.

Read more here: Rails World ‘26: Lexxy for Action Text