How can I use strip_tags in regular Ruby code (non-rails)?

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sanitizeme picture sanitizeme · Dec 4, 2010 · Viewed 22k times · Source

I need to turn HTML into plain text. There's a nice function that does that in ActionView's SanitizeHelper, but I have trouble understanding how I can reference it and use it in a simple test.rb file.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/SanitizeHelper.html

I would like to be able to call strip_tags("<b>lol</b>") => "lol"

Answer

santuxus picture santuxus · Apr 21, 2011

The question is quite old, but I had the same problem recently. I found a simple solution: gem sanitize. It's light, works fine and has additional options if you need them.

Sanitize.clean("<b>lol</b>") #=> "lol"

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