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

TextHelper#truncate has a block form of truncate, which lets you use a link_to that isn't escaped, while still escaping the truncated text:

truncate("") { link_to "Read More", "#" }

#=> <script>alert('hello world'...Read More