From: Miles Keaton <mileskeaton@...>
Date: 2005-01-05T15:11:15+09:00
Subject: what's the Ruby way to do this?

What's the Ruby way to do this?
If I want to get the first 10 words from a phrase, followed by "..."?
Although the following works, I can tell it's just not Rubyish:

  def snippet(thought)
    result = ''
    i = 0
    thought.split.each do |word|
      if i < 10
        result = (result + ' ' + word)
      end
      i = (i + 1)
    end
    result = result.strip + '...'
    return result
  end