How can I use strip_tags in regular Ruby code (non-rails)?

Question

I need to turn HTML into plain text. There\'s a nice function that does that in ActionView\'s SanitizeHelper, but I have trouble understanding how I can reference it and use

Answer 1

If you don't use it very often, then you can use:

ActionView::Base.full_sanitizer.sanitize(your_html_string)

else you can define a method in test_helper.rb file like:

def strip_html_tags(string)
    ActionView::Base.full_sanitizer.sanitize(string)
end

And then in your test.rb file, use this like:

strip_html_tags(your_html_string)