Is there an HTML safe truncate method in Rails?

the regular truncate function works fine, just pass :escape => false as an option to keep the HTML intact. eg:

truncate(@html_text, :length => 230, :omission => "" , :escape => false)

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*Edit I didn't read the question very carefully (or at all TBH), so this answer does not solve this question... It IS the answer I happened to be looking for though, so hopefully it helps 1 or 2 people :)

There are two completely different solutions both with the same name: truncate_html

1. https://github.com/ianwhite/truncate_html : This is a gem and uses an html parser (nokogiri)
2. https://github.com/hgmnz/truncate_html : This is a file you put in your helpers directory. It uses regular expressions and has no dependencies.