Merge pull request #2745 from basecamp/excert-truncation

Pre-truncate excerpt before running replacement regexes

app/helpers/excerpt_helper.rb

@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ module ExcerptHelper
     return "" if content.blank?
 
     text = content.respond_to?(:to_plain_text) ? content.to_plain_text : content.to_s
+    text = text.first(length * 2)
     text = text.gsub(/^>\s*(.*)$/m, '> \1')
     text = text.gsub(/^\s*[-+]\s*(.*)$/m, '• \1')
-    text = text.gsub(/^\d+\.\s*(.*)$/m) { |m| m }
+    text = text.gsub(/^\s*(\d+\.)\s*(.*)$/m, '\1 \2')
     text = text.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip
     text.truncate(length)
   end