From 81a2150cc1452d6396297e542c0316f88c559bad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Barber <github@danbarber.me>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:36:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add truncate method

---
 lib/administrate/fields/markdown.rb | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/administrate/fields/markdown.rb b/lib/administrate/fields/markdown.rb
index 74d0377..6ffe51a 100644
--- a/lib/administrate/fields/markdown.rb
+++ b/lib/administrate/fields/markdown.rb
@@ -5,11 +5,19 @@ module Administrate
         renderer.render(data).html_safe
       end
 
+      def truncate
+        data.to_s[0...truncation_length]
+      end
+
       private
 
       def renderer
         Redcarpet::Markdown.new(Redcarpet::Render::HTML, extensions: {})
       end
+
+      def truncation_length
+        options.fetch(:truncate, 50)
+      end
     end
   end
 end