How to use ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_tags in custom class

Question

Ruby newbie here.

I create a class called My_table (without extend anything). I want to use ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_tags(text).

I put the following on the top of my class, but that doesn't work.

require 'rubygems'
gem rails

Answer 1

Not tested but what about something like this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'action_controller'
puts ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_tags("<p>Testing</p>")

Obviously you need to have the rails gem installed first ( gem install rails from the command line) but there shouldn't be any reference to gem rails in your ruby script.