On Oct 11, 8:14 am, nobosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> strange. that didn't work...Or have any effect on the output...
>
Then maybe the code you're editing isn't actually the code that's
being run. Stick a breakpoint in your code and follow the flow when
truncate is called.
Fred
> The output examples I want:
>
> <%= truncate("#{teammember.user.full_name}", :length => 5) %>
>
> When full_name return "John Legend"
>
> Should return: John...
>
> Example 2, full_name = Howard Smith
>
> Should return: Howar...
>
> Very strange bug this is.... Is the truncate method reliable? thanks
>
> On Oct 10, 9:37 pm, rajeevsharma86 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > i am not sure but try this
>
> > truncate("Once upon a time in a world far far away", :length => 17,
> > :separator => ' ') or
>
> > write the outputs examples which you want to come
>
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:45 AM, nobosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Here is the truncate code I'm using:
>
> > > <%= truncate(teammember.user.full_name, :length => 8)%>
>
> > > teammember.user.full_name returns names like:
> > > - Steve Jobs
> > > - Larry Oracle
> > > - James Bond
> > > - Dhandar Kentavolv
>
> > > Butall the truncate is doing is returning:
> > > - Steve Jobs...
> > > - Larry Oracle...
> > > - James Bond...
> > > - Dhandar Kentavolv...
>
> > > The user.full_name is not a field in the DB but a helper in the user
> > > model, which might be the issue.?
>
> > > def full_name
> > > if !fname.nil? && !fname.empty?
> > > [fname, lname].join(" ")
> > > else
> > > ['User', id].join(" ")
> > > end
> > > end
>
> > > I then tried:
> > > <%= truncate("Once upon a time in a world far far away", :length =>
> > > 1)%>
> > > And that returns: Once... and not O...
>
> > > Any ideas? thanks!
>
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