How to seed data with ActionText has_rich_text?

In my model, I have:

class Listing < ApplicationRecord
  ...
  has_rich_text :description
  ...
 end

In my seeds.rb:

@listing = Listing.new(
      title: 'CODE VEIN',
      price: 59.99 * 100,
      description:  "<p>#{Faker::Lorem.paragraphs(number: 30).join(' ')}</p>",
      seller_id: seller.id,
      release_date: Date.parse('Sep 26, 2019'),
      status: :active,
      esrb: 'MATURE'
    )

Listing.description comes up nil, causing my NOT NULL constraint to error.

I've debugged with pry, and tried @listing.description.body= text or @listing.description.body = ActionText::Content.new(text), both still cause the listing#description to be nil.

This is an API Only project, but I use Trix RTE in the front-end react app. Is there a specific method to seed rich_text columns?

ActionText stores the actual contents in a seperate action_text_rich_texts table which uses a polymorphic assocation to link back to the model that its attached to.

# This migration comes from action_text (originally 20180528164100)
class CreateActionTextTables < ActiveRecord::Migration[6.0]
  def change
    create_table :action_text_rich_texts do |t|
      t.string     :name, null: false
      t.text       :body, size: :long
      t.references :record, null: false, polymorphic: true, index: false

      t.timestamps

      t.index [ :record_type, :record_id, :name ], name: "index_action_text_rich_texts_uniqueness", unique: true
    end
  end
end

The JavaScript component of ActionText (which is really the whole point) automatically sends AJAX requests when the user user interacts with Trix to create/update the row in the action_text_rich_texts table even before you have saved the record you're creating.

When you then submit the form you're actually submitting the id to the row on the action_text_rich_texts table and not the contents. Then when you save your model it updates the corresponding row on action_text_rich_texts with the record_type and record_id from the model. Its a pretty awkward solution that is built around the idea of never having to add columns to your model.

I don't really see the point in using ActionText in an API as the whole point is to add a quick and dirty Trix implementation to classical rails apps. You really should be able to solve this with just a single text column instead. Especially as that will let you access the contents without joining.