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Truncating HTML while preserving structure

Truncating HTML is a bit of a pain - in a recent effort to change the layout of my site, I updated the index page to show the last five posts - truncated, of course. The problem with doing this is that the most common method of truncating a post

Splitting an array in half in Ruby

So I have a collection of objects I need to split into two approximately equal arrays. Luckily, there is the partition method in Ruby: i = 0 count = User.count group_one, group_two = User.all.partition { i += 1; i < count / 2 }The partition method iterates over each object, with