Rails truncate helper with link as omit text

Question

I\'m quite long description that I want to truncate using truncate helper. So i\'m using the:

truncate article.description, :length => 200, :omission => \         


        

Answer 1

With Rails 4, you can/should pass in a block for the link:

truncate("Once upon a time in a world far far away", 
  length: 10, 
  separator: ' ', 
  omission: '... ') {     
    link_to "Read more", "#" 
}