Comments on: Rails + Tidy + REXML

By: Joakim Andersson

Joakim Andersson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:21:39 +0000

@Alex I think Hpricot is available for windows so you should be able to use Henrik’s solution.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:00:59 +0000

What about windows environment ?

By: Joakim

Joakim — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:17:17 +0000

Coolness. I’m going to use your code in the future. It’s better than my crap :)

By: Henrik N

Henrik N — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:09:01 +0000

Done: http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/01/rails-truncate-html-helper

By: Henrik N

Henrik N — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:22:39 +0000

Nice. I found myself wanting to make that HTML truncation code handle broken markup, too. Instead of tidy, I went with Hpricot which I'm using for other stuff, and which ships with OS X Leopard.

To tidy up markup with Hpricot, you can simply do: Hpricot(dirty_markup).to_s

I'm considering rewriting the truncater in all-Hpricot.

By: Suave’s Blog » » make excerpt in Ruby

Suave’s Blog » » make excerpt in Ruby — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:06:39 +0000

[...] ????? Tidy ??????????????FreeBSD 6.2 + Ruby 1.8.6 + libtidy_051026 + rubytidy 1.1.2 ?????Bug????? [...]

By: Suave

Suave — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:25:19 +0000

I’ve tried, but there’s a problem on FreeBSD 6.2 + tidylib-051026_2 + ruby tidy 1.1.2.

And the same problem occurs at http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports@freebsd.org/msg05130.html

By: etal

etal — Wed, 02 May 2007 14:50:42 +0000

Nice work but there are some problems with the code. Somewhere along the way you changed the close tags on lines 33 and 50 into html comments and discarded the attrs_to_s definition completely. Also to actually work with utf-8 content you have to change all references to length and slice into chars.length and chars.slice , you get odd results otherwise.

By: Truncating HTML in Ruby « Mike Burns, Coder

Truncating HTML in Ruby « Mike Burns, Coder — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:56:15 +0000

[...] Truncating HTML in Ruby Update: You should read the comments, then check out the extended verion of truncate_html that uses Tidy. [...]

By: Joakim

Joakim — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:14:57 +0000

Sorry about your name. I’ve fixed it now.