This is a stupidly simple 5 minute gem I wrote to play with the Enrycher text-processing API.
gem install enrycher or add gem 'enrycher' to your Gemfile.
require 'enrycher'
text = <<TEXT
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TEXT
Enrycher.process(text)
Enrycher.print
#=> prints the unaltered XML response from the server. Why did I use Nokogiri? Good question.