Formatting HTML Source using Ruby

Question

Hi All,

Is there any Ruby library available to format the HTML source. By formatting I mean removing the extra spacing, apply proper indentation etc.

I am already using Hpricot for parsing HTML. It would be nice if Hpricot could do this job. But I am not stick with Hpricot for the formatting stuff.

Thanks, Imran

Answer 1

Extra spacing and formatting don't really matter in HTML, so regardless of the formatting and white space, the browser should display the code as the same.

Answer 2

Check out this Ruby interface to the HTML Tidy library.