Limiting characters/words in view - ruby on rails

Question

I am displaying recent comments on the home page of a very simple blog application I am building in Ruby on Rails. I want to limit the number of characters that are displayed fr

Answer 1

If you are using rails 4.2 or above then you can use truncate_words method.

For example:
"In a world where everything is awesome".truncate_words(3)

Output: "In a world..."