From: Clifford Heath Date: 2008-11-11T18:57:36+09:00 Subject: Re: What is that method called? David Trasbo wrote: > I need the method that has the ability to turn a long string... into a shorter string... > My problem is that I can't remember what the method is called. I looked > through the whole Ruby String documentation... There's no such method in Ruby. You might be thinking of the truncate method that's part of ActionView's TextHelper module. Clifford Heath.