From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2008-11-11T19:04:07+09:00
Subject: Re: What is that method called?

I seriously doubt this is part of standard Ruby.

You have probably seen this in ActiveSupport and/or the 'english' gem  
- English::String#brief:

http://english.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/English/String.html#M000096

Cheers,
Peter

On 2008.11.11., at 10:16, David Trasbo wrote:

> I need the method that has the ability to turn a long string like  
> this:
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Pellentesque
> pulvinar turpis a nisi. Cras id elit. Aliquam vitae pede nec lacus
> elementum lacinia. Ut aliquam vehicula sem.
>
> into a shorter string like this:
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Pellentesque
> pulvinar turpis...
>
> My problem is that I can't remember what the method is called. I  
> looked
> through the whole Ruby String documentation
> (http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html) but I couldn't find it.
> Can anyone remember what it's called?
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>