lib/imdb_celebrity/string_extensions.rb
require 'cgi'
require 'iconv'
module ImdbCelebrity
module StringExtensions
# Unescape HTML
def imdb_unescape_html
Iconv.conv("UTF-8", 'ISO-8859-1', CGI::unescapeHTML(self))
end
# Strip tags
def imdb_strip_tags
gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
end
# Strips out whitespace then tests if the string is empty.
def blank?
strip.empty?
end unless method_defined?(:blank?)
end
end
String.send :include, ImdbCelebrity::StringExtensions