From: "Jean-Sébastien D." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-08-30T22:12:04+09:00
Subject: Re: String in rails and ruby show first n character

Lars Haugseth wrote in post #1073861:
> On 08/29/2012 08:34 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote:
>> Use String#[]: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html#method-i-5B-5D
>>
>> <%= f.description[0, 200] %>
>
> In Rails, you can also utilize the truncate helper method:
>
> <%= truncate(f.description, :length => 200, :separator => ' ') %>
>
> This will ensure the string is not chopped off in the middle of a word.
>
> 
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-truncate

Thanks both works, didn't know about both of them

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