From a9d3b77e494608cedcdad86d7e0c8a07694ffea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: root <mohamed.o.alnagdy@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:48:07 +0200
Subject: Added truncate_words method to activesupport strings

---
 activesupport/CHANGELOG.md                          |  4 ++++
 .../lib/active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb   | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb      | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

(limited to 'activesupport')

diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
index 214722a0e5..b087d8072b 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -254,4 +254,8 @@
 
     *Jeremy Kemper*
 
+*   Add `String#truncate_words` to truncate a string by a number of words.
+
+    *Mohamed Osama*
+
 Please check [4-1-stable](https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/4-1-stable/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md) for previous changes.
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb
index 49c0df6026..2029909486 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb
@@ -62,4 +62,25 @@ class String
 
     "#{self[0, stop]}#{omission}"
   end
+
+  # Truncates a given +text+ after a given number of words<tt>words_count</tt>:
+  #
+  #   'Once upon a time in a world far far away'.truncate_words(4)
+  #   # => "Once upon a time..."
+  #
+  # Pass a string or regexp <tt>:separator</tt> to specify a different separator of words:
+  #
+  #   'Once<br>upon<br>a<br>time<br>in<br>a<br>world'.truncate_words(5, separator: '<br>')
+  #   # => "Once<br>upon<br>a<br>time<br>in..."
+  #
+  # The last characters will be replaced with the <tt>:omission</tt> string (defaults to "..."):
+  #
+  #   'And they found that many people were sleeping better.'.truncate_words(5, omission: '... (continued)')
+  #   # => "And they found that many... (continued)"
+  def truncate_words(words_count, options = {})
+    sep = options[:separator] || /\s+/
+    sep = Regexp.escape(sep.to_s) unless Regexp === sep
+    return dup unless self =~ /^((?:.+?#{sep}){#{words_count - 1}}.+?)#{sep}.*/
+    $1 + (options[:omission] || '...')
+  end
 end
diff --git a/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb b/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
index 515144245a..7c4089eb73 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/core_ext/string_ext_test.rb
@@ -229,6 +229,26 @@ class StringInflectionsTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     assert_equal "Hello Big[...]", "Hello Big World!".truncate(15, :omission => "[...]", :separator => /\s/)
   end
 
+  def test_truncate_words
+    assert_equal "Hello Big World!", "Hello Big World!".truncate_words(3)
+    assert_equal "Hello Big...", "Hello Big World!".truncate_words(2)
+  end
+
+  def test_truncate_words_with_ommission
+    assert_equal "Hello Big World!", "Hello Big World!".truncate_words(3, :omission => "[...]")
+    assert_equal "Hello Big[...]", "Hello Big World!".truncate_words(2, :omission => "[...]")
+  end
+
+  def test_truncate_words_with_separator
+    assert_equal "Hello<br>Big<br>World!...", "Hello<br>Big<br>World!<br>".truncate_words(3, :separator => '<br>')
+    assert_equal "Hello<br>Big<br>World!", "Hello<br>Big<br>World!".truncate_words(3, :separator => '<br>')
+  end
+
+  def test_truncate_words_with_separator_and_ommission
+    assert_equal "Hello<br>Big<br>World![...]", "Hello<br>Big<br>World!<br>".truncate_words(3, :omission => "[...]", :separator => '<br>')
+    assert_equal "Hello<br>Big<br>World!", "Hello<br>Big<br>World!".truncate_words(3, :omission => "[...]", :separator => '<br>')
+  end
+
   def test_truncate_multibyte
     assert_equal "\354\225\204\353\246\254\353\236\221 \354\225\204\353\246\254 ...".force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8),
       "\354\225\204\353\246\254\353\236\221 \354\225\204\353\246\254 \354\225\204\353\235\274\353\246\254\354\230\244".force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8).truncate(10)
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