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

I would suggest doing this on your own in a helper method, that way you'll have a little more control over the output as well:

def article_description article
  output = h truncate(article.description, length: 200, omission: '...')
  output += link_to('[more]', article_path(article)) if article.description.size > 200
  output.html_safe
end