In our current app, there was a requirement to have a nice editor which will provide the basic functionalities like bold,italic and also image upload. We decided to use redactor-rails gem Github-Documentation-Link(Github Doc) . So i took following steps: In Gemfile i included: gem 'redactor-rails' Then for image uploading and storing i included two more gems as: gem 'carrierwave' gem 'mini_magik' Bundle it. rails generate redactor:install rails generate redactor:config In application.js //= require redactor-rails In active_admin.scss on the top include: *= require redactor-rails In ActiveAdmin model i wrote: f.input :name, input_html: {class: 'redactor'}