Copy the attached file to config/initializers/indent_string.rb and you can say
"foo".indent(4) # " foo"
Note you will find many simpler implementations of this method on the Interweb. They probably won't do what you want in edge cases, fuck up trailing whitespace, etc. The implementation in this card has the following behavior:
describe '#indent' do
it 'should indent the string by the given number of spaces' do
"foo".indent(2).should == " foo"
end
it 'should indent multiple lines line by line' do
"foo\nbar\n".indent(2).should == " foo\n bar\n"
end
it 'should indent blank lines' do
"foo\n\nbar\n".indent(2).should == " foo\n \n bar\n"
end
it 'should not add whitespace at the end' do
"foo\nbar".indent(2).should == " foo\n bar"
end
it 'should take an optional second argument which changes the character used for indentation' do
"foo".indent(2, '.').should == "..foo"
end
end
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2012-02-13 15:18)