On Nov 26, 8:51 am, kopf1988 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Let me see if this is somehow easy. I have columns in my MySQL > database set as 'text' ( double checked, they're not accidentally set > to the wrong thing). I'm trying to Marshal some data for a special > need in the program. Whenever I save this, though, the data (ie the > resulting string after marshal) gets chopped to no more than 255 > characters. Has there ever been an issue with MySQL doing that or > maybe rails thinking it's the wrong type?
Use a blob rather than a text column - if you've got a text column with the encoding set to utf8 (often to default) mysql will truncate when it sees data that isn't valid utf8 Fred > > I managed to fix it by converting the text fields to 'blob' data > types, but it's still weird and I'd love to know why. > > -Ryan > > def matchattributes > self[:matchattributes] ? Marshal.load(self[:matchattributes]) : [] > end > def matchattributes=(x) > self[:matchattributes] = Marshal.dump(x) > end -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
