I ran into a rather surprising little problem earlier this week that I felt bore documenting. It turns out that the “simple” Rails strip_tags helper is massive overkill when you just want to strip markup out of a document. It offers a lot of functionality, but it comes at a pretty ugly performance cost. Here’s [...]
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I'm Chris Heald. I'm a software developer and serial tinkerer from Phoenix, Arizona. I work as Chief Architect for Mashable, where I get to build nifty things. I work primarily in Ruby, Javascript, and PHP, and am always on the lookout for new and interesting things to tinker with. Connect with me on Google+ or Twitter.
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