HTML to Plain Text with Ruby?

Question

Is there anything out there to convert html to plain text (maybe a nokogiri script)? Something that would keep the line breaks, but that\'s about it.

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Answer 1

Is simply stripping tags and excess line breaks acceptable?

html.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, '').gsub(/\n\n+/, "\n").gsub(/^\n|\n$/, '')

First strips tags, second takes duplicate line breaks down to one, third removes line breaks at the start and end of the string.