Truncate string with Rails?

Question

I want to truncate a string as follows:

input:

string = \"abcd asfsa sadfsaf safsdaf aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa ffffdffffdffffdffffddd\"

Answer 1

This may not be the exact solution to your problem, but I think it will help put you in the right direction, with a pretty clean way of doing things.

If you want "Hello, World!" to be limited to the first five letters, you can do:

str = "Hello, World!"
str[0...5] # => "Hello"

If you want an ellipses, just interpolate it:

"#{str[0...5]}..." #=> "Hello..."