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 encountered a similar situation and this did the trick. Try (line breaks for readability):

(truncate h(article.description), 
                  :length => 200, 
                  :omission => "... #{link_to('[more]',articles_path(article)}")
                  .html_safe

You can use h to ensure sanity of article description, and since you are setting the link_to to a path you know to not be something potentially nefarious, you can mark the resulting string as html_safe without concern.