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Asked: 2026-06-14T19:00:17+00:00

In my Rails app, I have a view that allows user to modify the

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In my Rails app, I have a view that allows user to modify the rendered HTML, such as move the buttons around, changing the colors of a DIV etc. How can I persist those changes such that when the view is rendered next time, those changes are reflected?

My first thought was to store the modified HTML into database as a text column. However I really don’t like this approach since the HTML can be arbitrarily large, not to mention performance will be very bad. I dug around and so far haven’t a clue, which is puzzling to me since I don’t think this is that rare of a scenario: WYSIWYG type editor, website builder application should all need to solve this problem. Which makes me wonder if I’m going down the wrong track.

Any insights are greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think I have found a solution, which is:

    1. create a model called ‘Site’
    2. break a page into multiple logical parts, such as logo/header, navigation menu, content etc.
    3. edit the page WYSIWYG-style
    4. save the HTML into DB via this model
    5. when the page needs to be rendered to reflect the changes, pull out the contents from DB and render them ‘raw’ in the template
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