Markdown to plain text in Ruby?

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Published on 2010-03-30T17:46:39Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 17:53 UTC
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I'm currently using BlueCloth to process Markdown in Ruby and show it as HTML, but in one location I need it as plain text (without some of the Markdown). Is there a way to achieve that?

Is there a markdown-to-plain-text method? Is there an html-to-plain-text method that I could feel the result of BlueCloth?

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