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awesome / strip HTML tags
Created November 3, 2009 16:29
ruby 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>