some redcloth questions

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1) Is there a way to strip a redcloth string of all redcloth tags? I need to display a snippet of the text in an index page and want all markings removed. I used RedCloth.new('a').methods but didn't find anything appropriate. For now, I'm converting to html then stripping tags.

2) what's the best practice in term of storing user's redcloth- formatted text? store in markup, and convert to html on the fly? store in markup and html both? store in html and convert to markup using clothred for editing?

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I add another column to my table paralleling the original column, (i.e. body, filtered_body), and then use the before_save activerecord callback to convert the textile content to html, and store the result in filtered_body for display. That way it gets updated whenever you make a change, but you aren't doing it on every page load...

--matt