truncate_html

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TruncateHtml is just like the vanilla truncate rails helper, except it respects tags and html entities, and returns valid html.

Rexml and HtmlEntities are used for the parsing. If the input is invalid html, then nokogiri is used to fix it up (but is not used when the input is fine). If the input cannot be fixed up, then a TruncateHtmlHelper::InvalidHtml runtime error is raised.

Inspired and heavily influenced by {this article by Mike Burns}[http://mikeburnscoder.wordpress.com/2006/11/11/truncating-html-in-ruby/] and the links contained therein.

== Usage

when +post.title+ is

Then

<%= truncate_html post.title, :length => 15 %>

results in

== Dependencies

Requires the +htmlentities+ and +nokogiri+ gems:

in Gemfile:

gem "nokogiri" gem "htmlentities"

in your environment.rb file (~ rails 2)

config.gem "nokogiri" config.gem "htmlentities"

If you are on rails < 2.1, you need to explicitly include the following in your environment

require 'htmlentities' require 'nokogiri'

== Specs and Coverage

• Coverage is 100% (C0)
• CI: tested against all 2.x branches of rails

RSpec is used for testing, so the tests are in +spec/+ rather than +test/+ Do rake --tasks for more details.

{garlic}[http://github.com/ianwhite/garlic] is used for CI. To see what versions are tested against see {garlic.rb}[http://github.com/ianwhite/truncate_html/blob/master/garlic.rb]