Rails - May 2006 - Using action view helpers (strip_tags) in a rake task?

Hi all -

I''ve got a rake task that migrates some old data (simple, loop through
the
old stuff, modify it a bit, and save it to the new system).  That all 
works great.

However, I''d like to use strip_tags() to remove all HTML from some of
the
fields I''m converting, but I can''t figure out how to 
include/use/require/load/etc the right stuff to make this work.

For now, I just copied the strip_tags() definition out of the 
text_helper.rb file, but that is evil(tm)...

Am I just missing something obvious?

Thanks!

-philip