Wrapping text into lines at word boundaries

Question

1) I want to auto wrap a text by words so that each line does not exceed 56 characters. Is there a method for doing this, or do I need to roll my own?

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Answer 1

I believe the function you are looking for is word_wrap. Something like this should work:

<%= word_wrap @comment_text, :line_width => 56 %>

You can combine that with gsub to get the indentation you desire:

<%= word_wrap(@comment_text, :line_width => 52).gsub("\n", "\n    ") %>

But you should probably move that into a helper method to keep your view clean.

Answer 2

Perhaps word_wrap helper can help you.

To indent the text you can replace \n (newline) with newline + 4 spaces.