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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 15, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-railstidy-validates-your-html/68573 "2006-02-15T13:57:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-railstidy-validates-your-html/68573/1 "2006-02-15T13:57:45Z")
Hello everybody,
I needed something to validates my HTML templates so I wrote a plugin
and here is its first version:
RailsTidy is a plugin for Ruby On Rails. It allows you to
```
* validate your rhtml templates,
* validate the html output of your functional tests,
* clean the html generated by rails.
```
For doing all this, it uses
```
* Tidy[1], the popular HTML validator and
* RubyTidy[2], Ruby bindings for Tidy.
```
More on the RailsTidy[3] page.
```
* Installation instruction, usage and so on
are at http://www.cosinux.org/~dam/projects/rails-tidy/doc/,
* Source tree is at
```
[http://www.cosinux.org/~dam/projects/rails-tidy/rails\_tidy](http://www.cosinux.org/~dam/projects/rails-tidy/rails_tidy),
\* Tarball is at
[http://www.cosinux.org/~dam/projects/rails-tidy/rails\_tidy-0.1.tar.bz2](http://www.cosinux.org/~dam/projects/rails-tidy/rails_tidy-0.1.tar.bz2)
[1] [http://tidy.sourceforge.net/](http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)
[2] [http://rubyforge.org/projects/tidy/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/tidy/)
[3] [http://www.cosinux.org/blogs/dam/pages/rails-tidy](http://www.cosinux.org/blogs/dam/pages/rails-tidy)
I’ve seen in recents posts that people where looking for something
to clean their HTML output. The plugin can do it, but this hits
performance
quite a bit.
Hope this helps some peoples,
Regards,
Damien
PS: If someone has the correct mail for the ruby tidy bindings author,
can he
send it to me ? The rubyforge adress seems to not be valid anymore.
–
Damien MERENNE [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
[http://www.cosinux.org/blogs/dam/](http://www.cosinux.org/blogs/dam/)
Scientists have estimated that the energy given off during the Big Bang
is roughly equal to 1CNRhK (Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick)
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**Author:**  [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-railstidy-validates-your-html/68573/2 "2006-02-15T13:57:45Z")
Oh, and I hope this time my server is correctly configured. There should
not be problems, but if you experiences some, please be patient.
Bye
–
Damien MERENNE [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
[http://www.cosinux.org/blogs/dam/](http://www.cosinux.org/blogs/dam/)
Chuck Norris doesn’t churn butter.
He roundhouse kicks the cows and the butter comes straight out.
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**Author:**  [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-railstidy-validates-your-html/68573/3 "2006-02-16T05:59:52Z")
Oooh, Nice!
validating html has always been a pain because its so easy to forget to
validate the pages after you edit them, this is going to come in handy.
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**Author:**  [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-railstidy-validates-your-html/68573/4 "2006-02-16T07:21:45Z")
On 2/15/06, Damien MERENNE [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> He roundhouse kicks the cows and the butter comes straight out.
>
> * * *
>
> Rails mailing list
> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)
Wow, really good idea!