similar to: Simple: How to use TextHelper in a controller

I have a model that deals with HTML and I want to use the text_helper.sanitize method to strip the HTML of Javascript. However, it doesn''t appear that I can get easy access to the text_helper methods from within a model. Anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? In general, I think that there are some ActionView helpers which are generic enough to want to use in a model class.

All, I have a little namespace collision here. I am trying to use both RubyfulSoup (an HTML parser - which I highly recommend by the way) and the ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper class. Within the TextHelper class, there''s an attempt to create a new "Tag" object. However, Tag is also defined in the RubyfulSoup gem and it is _this_ Tag class whose initialize method is

Hello, Is there a common way of stripping html tags from a string? Right now I''m just calling gsub!(/<.*?>/, ''''), but with a background in PHP and always having used its strip_tags() method, I wonder if the Rails community has standardized this fairly common task with something a bit less simpleminded than my quick fix. Thanks! Zack -------------- next part

So I''ve googled my brains out, and I see a lot of talk about TextHelper for views, but next to no discussion about cleaning text _before_ it is saved. I figured this had to be asked 4 zillion times, but I''m not finding anything concrete/obvious. Using h is fine as a safety catch, but that alone is not acceptable to me as the means of diffusing the impact of HTML or JS

Hi, I want to access TextHelper and UrlHelper methods in my model so how i am able to access it ? I was included following helper in my model but still it is not working? also for accessing these helper method w need to give external reference? E.g. class Xyz include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper include ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper Also

All, I am interested in trying to generate a text version of an HTML document. Does any one know of any modules that may be of use to me? A cursory search has not yielded any results. Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hey All, I''m attempting to upgrade my app from rails 2.0.2 to 2.3.3. One bit that''s failing is this call here (in /views/projects/show.html.erb) <%= markdown(@project.description) %> That earns me a: uninitialized constant ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper::Markdown On that line. I''m on a rebuilt machine (windows xp, ruby 1.8.6) so I thought it was a

I would like to request a feature.. like: http://rubyonrails.org/function and it will search inside http://api.rubyonrails.org for the function and show it. Like PHP has.. http://php.net/basename Example: http://rubyonrails.org/truncate and it will points to http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001541 That woul be cool. Thanks

I would like to request a feature.. like: http://rubyonrails.org/function and it will search inside http://api.rubyonrails.org for the function and show it. Like PHP has.. http://php.net/basename Example: http://rubyonrails.org/truncate and it will points to http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001541 That woul be cool. Thanks

I want to test that the JSON response from a create action is sanitized properly, but rspec or webrat appears to be parsing the output into proper HTML chars instead of escaped characters. I have verified that it escapes properly in the regular browser json response. The relevant RSpec test code is: include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper include ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper it

All, I''ve downloaded and installed a plugin into my vendor directory. How do I then take advantage of it? It has an init.rb file which has the appropriate require. What do I need to do to make sure that the plugin code gets loaded? Thanks, Wes -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi I''ve contributed a patch which fixes an incorrect example in the documentation for auto_link in ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper. The example uses truncate in the old style of tuncate(text, length) which no longer works, so I''ve patched it to use the new tuncate(text, :length => n) style.

Been searching for a function that can do this, but have onl found a helper function. is there a way to strip all html tags of a string in a controller? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group,

All, In a template, I have <%= text_field :target_list, :DateReceived, { :title => ''uploaded_at'', :class => ''target_list_info'', :disabled => ''true'' } %> Here is the DateReceived method on my

Hi there, I need to: 1. STORE a text of the below format in a (MySQL) database (using a ''textarea''), and then 2. RETRIEVE & DISPLAY it in exactly the same format (meaning: keeping all paragraphs/line breaks). The intended text format looks like this: *** Blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah blah blahblah blah, blah blahblah. <- NEW

Hello all, I''m using the sanitize() method from TextHelper in my application, which appears to use the VERBOTEN_TAGS constant to define which tags to escape out from the HTML. I''d like to modify VERBOTEN_TAGS to include some more tags, but I''m not sure where I would place the necessary code in my rails app. Any ideas? Thanks, Kamil -- Posted via

For the life of me I can''t get it to work. Here is an example of my syntax. I''m trying to make comment.name a link to comment.web_site only if there is a comment.web_site. Can someone please help? <%= link_to_if(comment.web_site.length > 0, comment.name, comment.web_site {"class" => "comment_by"}) %> -- Posted via

Hi, This is more of a Ruby question than Rails. I want to autolink url''s in a given string. I''m not great with regular expressions and I wandered if anybody has an example. Thanks.

Does Rails have built in support for alternating table row colors? Thanks, Sam

All, I''m starting to see view state information creeping into my model class. For example, I have text fields in my view that need to be set a certain way depending on whether or not a checkbox is checked. And while the values of these text fields ultimately do represent database columns that are related to the backing AR object, the text_field values also represent attributes on a