Re: How to get "Read More" link

Ruby Apps Typo
1

Well, there’s the extended content box - anything placed in which will
ordinarily only be viewable when clicking to view a post.

Although my current theme (hemingway from the Typogarden contest)
doesn’t really make it abundantly clear that there is more content to
follow - I’ve resorted to just wording the normal text to indicate
there’s more, then the user can click the usual links to make their way
through to the post.

Paul

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vamsee K.
Sent: 27 February 2006 15:18
To: [email protected]
Subject: [typo] How to get “Read More” link

Hi all,

Is there anyway I can limit the number of words in a given entry? Like,
show them a little description, followed by a link “Read More”.
Clicking on which will lead to the actual article. Sorry if this has
been asked before, I couldn’t find anything on the archives.

Thanks,
Vamsee.

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2

Actually, I?ve done this on my blog (http://uzair.nairang.org), and it?s
fairly simple. The tricky thing is that when you truncate the article on
the
front page, you have to sanitize the HTML and close any open tags, so
that
you don?t get inconsistent formatting because of, say, an open italics
tag.

In my themes/hemingway/articles/index.rhtml, I?ve got this (lines 9-14):

<div class="story<%= ' first' if i == 1 %>">
	<h3><%= article_link article.title, article %></h3>
	<%= truncate(article.body_html, 500) %>
	<div class="details">
		Posted at <%= article.created_at.strftime("%I").to_i
	</div>
</div>

The truncate() call returns just the first 500 characters of the
article,
sanitizing it first. I put the sanitizing function in
app/helpers/application_helper.rb, since that’s where the strip_html()
function etc. are. If you like, I can send you my copy.

Cheers,

Uzair

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul I.
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [typo] How to get “Read More” link

Well, there?s the extended content box ? anything placed in which will
ordinarily only be viewable when clicking to view a post.

Although my current theme (hemingway from the Typogarden contest)
doesn?t
really make it abundantly clear that there is more content to follow ?
I?ve
resorted to just wording the normal text to indicate there?s more, then
the
user can click the usual links to make their way through to the post.

Paul

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vamsee K.
Sent: 27 February 2006 15:18
To: [email protected]
Subject: [typo] How to get “Read More” link

Hi all,

Is there anyway I can limit the number of words in a given entry? Like,
show
them a little description, followed by a link “Read More”. Clicking on
which will lead to the actual article. Sorry if this has been asked
before,
I couldn’t find anything on the archives.

Thanks,
Vamsee.

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