class HtmlParser def self.parse_reply(raw_body) new(raw_body).filtered_text end attr_reader :raw_body def initialize(raw_body) @raw_body = raw_body end def document @document ||= Nokogiri::HTML(raw_body) end def filter_replies! document.xpath('//blockquote').each { |n| n.replace('> ') } end def filtered_html @filtered_html ||= begin filter_replies! document.inner_html end end def filtered_text @filtered_text ||= Html2Text.convert(filtered_html) end end