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ruby strip HTML tags
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strip HTML tags
# copied from (thanks!): http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/615
str = <<HTML_TEXT
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<h1>Application error</h1>
<p>Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like
in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML_TEXT
puts str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
@ArtBears

ArtBears commented Mar 31, 2016

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This is great! Thanks for the gist =)

@matiasa18

matiasa18 commented Aug 25, 2016

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Thank you! 👍

@parag90-zz

parag90-zz commented Dec 1, 2016

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Thank you, Very useful !!

@v4vasanth

v4vasanth commented Feb 24, 2017

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Not all heroes wear capes

@meowsus

meowsus commented Oct 29, 2017

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lol @v4vasanth

@juryghidinelli

juryghidinelli commented Apr 5, 2018

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Thank you!

@illtellyoulater

illtellyoulater commented Jul 26, 2020

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👍

@Beyarz

Beyarz commented Nov 24, 2020

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This did the job!

@JonRamSage

JonRamSage commented Feb 13, 2024

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lovely - just perfect

@reiz

reiz commented Oct 1, 2024

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Awesome!

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