title: Customizing a table cell<td> on my index.htm.erb view using rails 3
body: <p>My   <code>index.html.erb</code> page under views/projects displays 5 fields(cells) under my projects tab.</p>
  
  <p>Product, Status, POCs, est_date and delivery_date. I am using the following code in my table: </p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;% @projects.each do |project| %&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= link_to project.product, project %&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= project.status %&gt;&lt;%= link_to '...MORE', project %&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= project.pocs %&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      ....
      ....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So basically the table/view lists all of my projects and you can click on any of the projects to view a detailed view    (<code>show.html.erb</code>) of all the fields in each project. </p>
  
  <p>The   <code>Status</code> field/cell can get rather large with all the details that can be entered into it. </p>
  
  <p>My question is this. How can I adjust the   <code>Status</code> cell in the index view to only show the first 5 lines of text. <code>If</code> more then 5 lines show my link   (<code>...MORE</code>). When clicked, go to the details view (show.html.erb) where you can view the the details. </p>
  
  <p>I just don't want the index view getting too large and full of too much text. It should just be a quick summary.  </p>