Httparty displaying HTML - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am using httparty gem to get wp-json date from a wordpress site to my Rails application.
Here is my controller that gets the json info:
require 'httparty'
require 'json'
class ConnectionController < ApplicationController
respond_to :json
def index
end
def thirty_days
get_thirty_days
end
private
def query_wordpress_category(wordpress_category)
#response = HTTParty.get("http://thriveconnection.com/wp-json/posts?filter[category_name]=#{wordpress_category}&filter[order]=date")
end
def get_thirty_days
query_wordpress_category("30-days")
#thirty_days = JSON.parse(#response.body)
end
end
Here is what it gets displayed: http://d.pr/i/1jMEq
Here is my view:
<% #thirty_days.each do |article| %>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<a href="<%= article['link'] %>" target="_blank">
<img src="<%= article['featured_image']['source'] %>" alt="" class="img-responsive thumbnail" />
</a>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<strong class="title-font">
<a href="<%= article['link'] %>" target="_blank">
<%= article['title'] %>
</a>
</strong>
<span class="small-font">Published Date <%= article['date'] %></span>
<br /><br />
<%= article['excerpt'] %>
<br /><br />
<a href="<%= article['link'] %>" target="_blank">
<i class="fa fa-bookmark-o"></i>Read the Article
</a>
</div>
</div><!-- END .row -->
<% end %>
Here is my problem, the excerpt from wordpress gets displayed as an html. How can I display that so the HTML tags don't show up. Also, is there any way I can format the date to mm/dd/yyyy format?

Answer 1

You need to mark the strings that you don't want escaped as html_safe which allows the Rails view processor to know not to escape them. Be warned, if you don't escape them then you open your users up to various hack attempts by the other site by including a malicious packet in the strings you retrieve.
So, eg.
<%= article['title'].html_safe %>

Answer 2

Also as for date format I used
<%= Date.parse(article["date"].strftime("%m/%d/%Y") %>