Please feel free to submit this as a pull request (for the CE repo, then
send me a pull request on GitHub).
Thanks,
Bruno

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Patrick Minton <[email protected]>wrote:

> I just thought you'd all like to know that it would be a good idea to
> change the invititations.message database column to TEXT instead of
> VARCHAR(255).  It's actually pretty easy to write a message that is longer
> than 255 characters in length, which will cause an
> ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid exception (and thus an Internal Server Error
> for you app running in production) unless you change the form w/ some
> javascript to limit the message to 255 or add some exception handling.  I
> just changed the db field to text since there isn't really a good reason for
> this restriction.
>
> I did the following migration:
>
> class FixInviteTextField < ActiveRecord::Migration
>  def self.up
>    change_column :invitations, :message, :text
>  end
>
>  def self.down
>    change_column :invitations, :message, :string
>  end
> end
>
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