Rails - Oct 2008 - convert html to plain text in ruby

Hi,

I''m looking for a way to convert html to plain text.
Now, I know about strip_tags, but - as the name says - that only
strips the tags.

What I need is to get stuff like &amp; and &lt; back to & and <
too.
Any help?

Thanks,
Mathijs
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You could use some regexp and the hash ERB::Util::HTML_ESCAPE to
return the unescaped versions of the characters.
 - Richard

On Oct 1, 3:31 pm,
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wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m looking for a way to convert html to plain text.
> Now, I know about strip_tags, but - as the name says - that only
> strips the tags.
>
> What I need is to get stuff like &amp; and &lt; back to & and
< too.
> Any help?
>
> Thanks,
> Mathijs
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You might be able to check out some example code in convert_attachment_to
plugin:
http://github.com/kete/convert_attachment_to/tree/master

Depending on configuration, it will take an uploaded HTML file (or PDF, MS
doc...) and convert it into a plain text attribute, etc.  Probably overkill
for what what you are after, but might have something you can learn from.

Cheer,
Walter

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