require 'active_support/core_ext/string' module GitHub module Strings # taken from Liquid: http://git.io/vBNqH def strip_html(str) str.to_s.gsub(%r{}m, '') \ .gsub(//m, '') \ .gsub(%r{}m, '') \ .gsub(/<.*?>/m, '') end # taken from Rails: http://git.io/vBNcY def squish(str) str.gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, ' ').strip end def clean_for_json(str) squish(strip_html(str)) end end end include GitHub::Strings