Paragraphify

Takes a long string and inserts spaces and newlines to convert into a paragraph format.

Examples:

Given the input string Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Vitae semper quis lectus nulla at volutpat diam ut venenatis. Sollicitudin nibh sit amet commodo nulla facilisi and the following settings:

• Pragraphify::Paragraph.new() - defaults of linebreak = 80, leading_indent = 0, hanging_indent = 0
  • `Paragraphify::paragraphify() will return

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Vitae semper quis lectus nulla at
volutpat diam ut venenatis. Sollicitudin nibh sit amet commodo nulla facilisi

• Pragraphify::Paragraph.new(hanging_indent: 8) - defaults of linebreak = 80, leading_indent = 0
  • `Paragraphify::paragraphify() will return

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
        incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Vitae semper quis lectus
        nulla at volutpat diam ut venenatis. Sollicitudin nibh sit amet commodo
        nulla facilisi

• Pragraphify::Paragraph.new(leading_indent: 4) - defaults of linebreak = 80, hanging_indent = 0
  • `Paragraphify::paragraphify() will return

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Vitae semper quis lectus
nulla at volutpat diam ut venenatis. Sollicitudin nibh sit amet commodo nulla
facilisi

• Pragraphify::Paragraph.new(leading_indent: 4, hanging_indent: 8) - default of linebreak = 80
  • `Paragraphify::paragraphify() will return

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
        tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Vitae semper quis
        lectus nulla at volutpat diam ut venenatis. Sollicitudin nibh sit amet
        commodo nulla facilisi

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'paragraphify', git: 'https://github.com/mkevinosullivan/paragraphify'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

• Initialize module using Paragraphify::Paragraph.new() which any of the following optional keyword arguments:

  • linebreak: (default = 80) - where the text will be broken with a newline character, keeping words intact.
  • leading_indent: (default = 0) - inserts this number of spaces at the start of the returned string.
  • hanging_indent: (default = 0) - inserts this number of spaces after each newline inserted.

• Call conversion method using Paragraphify#paragraphify() with a single mandatory keyword argument string:, returns a string formatted per the settings of the calling instance.

• Setters & getters for

  • Paragraphify#linebreak
  • Paragraphify#leading_indent
  • Paragraphify#hanging_indent

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mkevinosullivan/paragraphify.