Graceful degradation/progressive enhancement for ActionMailer templates?

rubyonrails-talk
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Is there some gem or technique that will let us write only .html.erb templates for our Rails 3 mailers, and gracefully degrade them by stripping HTML tags for the text/plain version, rather than having to create each partial twice?

Google is seriously failing me, so I must be searching for the wrong terms; it's hard to believe nobody's ever even asked about this before.

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Something i've tried in the past is write the email templates in markdown (i.e. a template language which is designed to be easily readable in plain text). html readers get the processed version of the email, plain text readers get the raw markdown.

Fred