Trimming the text

raj · May 22, 2007, 2:46am

I have to display a post but i want to display only 3 lines of it…I
want to trim the text and put read more link.

How do i do that?

Thank you.

PS: New Bee to rails.

raj · May 22, 2007, 3:25am

check the ruby docs for String.

you could use scan
or each
or index and slice
or split

so many choices.

raj · May 22, 2007, 8:51pm

I used split and join…it worked for me.

Thank you.

raj · May 23, 2007, 2:21am

You might also want to check Rails TextHelper, which has some useful
methods like excerpt, truncate, etc for manipulation strings.

On 5/22/07, raj [email protected] wrote:

I used split and join…it worked for me.

Thank you.

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