From: Rupert Voelcker <rupert@...>
Date: 2008-12-03T02:14:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Substring with "..."

2008/12/2 Jose Antonio Parra <josparbar@gmail.com>:
>  Hi!
>
>  I want to know what is the method to take a string and return a
> substring with 20 characters and "..." if the length of the string is
> greater, or the complete string if it's shorter than 20 characters.
> Thanks all.

It's not actually part of the ruby api - it's a rails function in
ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper -

truncate(text, *args)

Rupert