FEATURE: Return only the first paragraph of text in HTML digests, unless

there is only one post. In that case return everything. Remove
dependency on 'html_truncator'

Gemfile

@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ gem 'redis', :require => ["redis", "redis/connection/hiredis"]
 
 gem 'active_model_serializers'
 
-gem 'html_truncator'
 
 # we had issues with latest, stick to the rev till we figure this out
 # PR that makes it all hang together welcome

Gemfile_rails4.lock

@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@ GEM
     highline (1.6.20)
     hike (1.2.3)
     hiredis (0.4.5)
-    html_truncator (0.3.1)
-      nokogiri (~> 1.5)
     httpauth (0.2.0)
     i18n (0.6.9)
     ice_cube (0.11.1)
@@ -410,7 +408,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   handlebars-source (~> 1.1.2)
   highline
   hiredis
-  html_truncator
   image_optim
   image_sorcery
   librarian (>= 0.0.25)

app/helpers/user_notifications_helper.rb

@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@ module UserNotificationsHelper
     "<a href='#{Discourse.base_url}'>#{@site_name}</a>"
   end
 
-  def email_excerpt(html)
+  def email_excerpt(html, posts_count)
-    raw Sanitize.clean(HTML_Truncator.truncate(html, 300), Sanitize::Config::RELAXED)
+    # If there's only one post, include the whole thing.
+    if posts_count == 1
+      return raw Sanitize.clean(html, Sanitize::Config::RELAXED)
+    else
+      # Otherwise, try just the first paragraph.
+      first_paragraph = Nokogiri::HTML(html).at('p')
+      return raw Sanitize.clean(first_paragraph.to_s, Sanitize::Config::RELAXED)
+    end
   end
 end

app/views/user_notifications/digest.html.erb

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
         <%- if t.best_post.present? %>
           <div class='digest-post'>
-            <%= email_excerpt(t.best_post.cooked) %>
+            <%= email_excerpt(t.best_post.cooked, @featured_topics.size) %>
           </div>
         <%- end %>