Get plain text of rich text attribute in Rails

Suppose you have a Note model with a rich text attribute named content. If content has the value Hello there, and you run:

Note.content

you’ll get a ActionText::RichText instance:

#<ActionText::RichText:0x00000001090fdf70                                                                                                                                            
 id: 7,                                                                                                                                                                              
 name: "content",                                                                                                                                                                    
 body: #<ActionText::Content "<div class=\"trix-conte...">,                                                                                                                          
 record_type: "Note",                                                                                                                                                                
 record_id: 7,                                                                                                                                                                       
 created_at: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 14:52:03.372868000 UTC +00:00,                                                                                                                         
 updated_at: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 14:52:03.372868000 UTC +00:00>                                                                                                                         
irb(main):007:0> 

To get the plain text version, you can use:

Note.content.to_plain_text

which will return:

"Hello there"