how to remove single quotes(') in ruby on rails

Question

@content = "<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', 'geneva'; font-size: 'large';\">Helo's</span></p>"

I want to remove single quotes (') from <style> but not from the Helo's. Right now I'm using this but this remove all the single quotes(').

@content.gsub(/'/,"")

Answer 1

You could do:

@content.gsub(/style=".+?"/){ |x| x.gsub("'", '') }

This would remove the single quotes from the style attributes.

Answer 2

Seems like you are going to need to parse the HTML with something like nokogiri. Only then you will be able to replace the text content of the tags.