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

The question is quite old, but I had the same problem recently. I found a simple solution: gem sanitize. It's light, works fine and has additional options if you need them.

Sanitize.clean("lol") #=> "lol"