From: Michael Steinfeld <mikeisgreat@...>
Date: 2007-01-06T08:27:01+09:00
Subject: new to list, question about html formatting with Ruby using RedCloth.

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Hi all,

I am trying to figure out a way to not chop off my text mid-word using
truncate() and redcloth.

index.rhtml
article_html is formatted with RedCloth
<%= truncate(post.article_html, 80) %>

I have a db table named Articles with (along with others) 2 columns
"article_text" and "article_html"
article_html get's populated by using a simple method with redcloth in the
model

show.rhtml
<snip>
def before_save
 self.article_html = RedCloth.new(self.article_text).to_html
end
</snip>

There are 2 views, index.rhtml and show.rhtml.

 I call article_html
the main index view, I want to truncate article_html to only display the
first paragraph <p> blah .. </p>
and then of course the link to "show" will display the full article.

I've done stuff similar using textile with python, but I want to know the
"Ruby Way" to do this.

I figure this is pretty basic that you can give me an example with out me
pasting code, but if you need let me know and I will post it.

Thanks

-- 
-mike

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