RHTML Converter

Extract text from Ruby templates (RHTML)


Drop or upload your .RHTML file
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How to extract text from your RHTML file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RHTML file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert RHTML to another file type

To convert RHTML templates to another format, you need RStudio or other Web software.

Convert a file to RHTML

To convert other file formats to the "Server-Side Web Page" file type, you need software like RStudio or a similar tool.


About RHTML files

.RHTML files serve two primary purposes: compiled HTML documents generated from R Markdown using the knitr package, or older Ruby web templates embedding server-side scripts into HTML. You can open these files using RStudio for R projects or text editors like Visual Studio Code for Ruby templates. The main disadvantage of .RHTML files is that they contain executable code alongside markup. Web browsers might just display the raw code instead of rendering a webpage if a local server is not running. They are not natively understood by standard document viewers, causing confusion for end-users who just want to read a final report or view a webpage. Standard online converters often fail because they try to parse the server-side tags instead of treating the file as raw text or structured HTML. The best target formats are standard HTML for browser viewing, MD for text editing, or TXT for raw code inspection. Note that converting to a visual format like PDF requires executing the embedded scripts first, or you will only see the source code. Because of embedded server-side scripts, this file format is difficult to open or convert seamlessly. Often only the original software can properly read or export the compiled data. However, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your RHTML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert RHTML file to HTML, HTM, CSS, JS, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP, JSPX, PY, RB or PL, you can use RStudio or similar software from the "Web Page Code Execution" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert RSS, CSS, CGI, SITEMAP, PL, WEBMANIFEST, JSON, JS, XML, HTML, ICO or HTM files to RHTML, try RStudio or another comparable tool in the "Web Page Code Execution" category.



The RHTML Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our RHTML converter.