module Nanoc::Helpers::Text
Contains several useful text-related helper functions.
Public Instance Methods
excerptize(string, length: 25, omission: '...')
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Returns an excerpt for the given string. HTML tags are ignored, so if you don't want them to turn up, they should be stripped from the string before passing it to the excerpt function.
@param [String] string The string for which to build an excerpt
@param [Number] length The maximum number of characters
this excerpt can contain, including the omission.
@param [String] omission The string to append to the
excerpt when the excerpt is shorter than the original string
@return [String] The excerpt of the given string
# File lib/nanoc/helpers/text.rb, line 17 def excerptize(string, length: 25, omission: '...') if string.length > length excerpt_length = [0, length - omission.length].max string[0...excerpt_length] + omission else string end end
strip_html(string)
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Strips all HTML tags out of the given string.
@param [String] string The string from which to strip all HTML
@return [String] The given string with all HTML stripped
# File lib/nanoc/helpers/text.rb, line 31 def strip_html(string) # FIXME: will need something more sophisticated than this, because it sucks string.gsub(/<[^>]*(>+|\s*\z)/m, '').strip end