Convert HTML to plain text (with inclusion of s)

Question

Is it possible to convert HTML with Nokogiri to plain text? I also want to include
tag.

For example, given this HTML:

Answer 1

Nokogiri will strip out links, so I use this first to preserve links in the text version:

html_version.gsub!(/(.*)<\/a>/i) { "#{$2}\n#{$1}" }

that will turn this:

link to google

to this:

link to google
http://google.com