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Convert HTML to correct text?

Is there a way to convert HTML to the correct text? I tried everything: from raw to sanitation and even with a mail stone using the text_part method, which should do just that, but it does not work for me.

My best shot so far has been strip_tags(strip_links(resource.body)) , but <p> , <ul> etc. were not converted correctly.

This is more or less what I have in HTML:

 Hello This is some text. Blah blah blah. Address: John Doe 10 ABC Street Whatever City New Features - Feature A - Feature B - Feature C Check this out: http://www.google.com Best, Admin

which translates to something like

 Hello This is some text. Blah blah blah. Address: John Doe 10 ABC Street Whatever City New Features Feature A Feature B Feature C Check this out: http://www.google.com Best, Admin

Any idea?

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Found a solution here: https://github.com/alexdunae/premailer/blob/master/lib/premailer/html_to_plain_text.rb

It works like a charm!

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Rails 4.2.1 has #strip_tags , a built-in method specifically designed to remove HTML tags.

Some examples:

 strip_tags("Strip <i>these</i> tags!")

=> Separate these tags!

 strip_tags("<b>Bold</b> no more! <a href='more.html'>See more here</a>...")

=> Bold no more! More details

 strip_tags("<div id='top-bar'>Welcome to my website!</div>")

=> Welcome to my site!

Check this out in the API docs .

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