Is there an HTML safe truncate method in Rails?

Question

I have a string of HTML in Rails. I\'d like to truncate the string after a certain number of characters not including the HTML markup. Also, if the split happens to fall in

Answer 1

the regular truncate function works fine, just pass :escape => false as an option to keep the HTML intact. eg:

truncate(@html_text, :length => 230, :omission => "" , :escape => false)

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*Edit I didn't read the question very carefully (or at all TBH), so this answer does not solve this question... It IS the answer I happened to be looking for though, so hopefully it helps 1 or 2 people :)