From: "Marston A." Date: 2006-07-21T10:54:43+09:00 Subject: How to truncate strings in Ruby? So I'd think this is a very simple question, I've searched around the manual and google but couldn't really find it. So what is the method to truncate a string in Ruby? Similar to the truncate(@text, 20) helper method in Rails? To get the first 20 characters of a string for example. Thanks in advanced -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.