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.

If I write som

Answer 1

Building slightly on Matchu's answer, this worked for my (very similar) requirements:

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

Hope it makes someone's life a bit easier :-)