TruncateHtml

truncate_html is a Rails helper plugin that cuts off a string of HTML and takes care of closing any lingering open tags. There are many possible solutions to this. This plugin does not have any dependencies, and does all it's work via regular expressions.

The API is very similar to Rails' own truncate method.

Example

some_html = '<ul><li><a href="http://whatever">This is a link</a></li></ul>'

truncate_html(some_html, :length => 5, :omission => '...(continued)')

  => <ul><li><a href="http://whatever">This is...(continued)</a></li></ul>

A few notes:

It will truncate on a word boundary.
The default options are:
- :length => 100
- :omission => '...'

Installation

As a gem

Add this to your config/environment.rb:

config.gem 'truncate_html',
  :source => 'http://gemcutter.org'

Then either sudo rake gems:install or sudo gem install truncate_html

As a plugin:

script/plugin install git://github.com/hgimenez/truncate_html.git

Issues

Found an issue? Please report it on Github's issue tracker.

Testing

The plugin is tested using RSpec. Install it on your app if you wish to run the tests.