Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Philip Hallstrom wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks a million for your reply. I will give that a go. I had seen that >>>> that is possible but I was a bit worried that it would mean that my >>>> migrations wouldn't be database agnostic >>> >>> Is there a reason that you're not using VARCHAR? That should hold the >>> data (in less space, I believe!) and keep your migrations DB-agnostic. >> >> Doesn't mysql limit varchar to 65kb or so? >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/char.html > > Quite right. I was looking for size limits on VARCHAR and somehow > missed that. Thanks! > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org
Thanks a million for all the suggestions. I'll go with using longtext for now and look into moving over to a solution that stores the files on s3 in the near future. This was a my first post to forum and I am really appreciate all the help that I got, thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
