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

You can also use the truncate method if you want to limit the number of characters. I'm using this to display just enough characters in a bootstrap row to somewhat match the height of an image displayed in the same row.

<%= "#{message.truncate(charcount)}" %>