How to set a character limit for a Ruby on Rails RSS feeds

Ruby on Rails » Basics » November 21, 2007
Submitted by bigimaginations » I was making a RSS feed the other day and wanted to limit the number of characters in my description. Here is how I did it.
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zachholmanNovember 21, 2007
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Fairly simplistic tutorial, but interesting nonetheless. For further exploration, this is from Rails' TextHelper module, which has a number of really, really time-saving methods:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html

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