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

With this example:

"<p>example</p>"

This helped me:

ActionView::Base.full_sanitizer.sanitize(Nokogiri::HTML(example).text)

Output:

example