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 is the source code of String#truncate

def truncate(truncate_at, options = {})
  return dup unless length > truncate_at

  options[:omission] ||= '...'
  length_with_room_for_omission = truncate_at - options[:omission].length
  stop = \
    if options[:separator]
      rindex(options[:separator], length_with_room_for_omission) ||      length_with_room_for_omission
    else
      length_with_room_for_omission
    end

   "#{self[0...stop]}#{options[:omission]}"
end

So, as for you case

string.truncate(37, :omission => "...ffffffffd")