RoR trim string

Question

Hi

<%= user.name[0..9] %>

this gives abcdefghi

but I want it to be

if length is greater than 5 then abcde...

if less than 5 then abcde

Answer 1

Rails has a built-in view helper for this:

<%= truncate(user.name, :length => 5) %>

• truncate helper API documentation