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Rails MySQL BLOB support
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
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Joined: Jul 08, 2003
Posts: 24061
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Took this MySQL amateur more than an hour of Googling to find out that the reason file upload to a MySQL BLOB in Rails (see p. 362 in "Agile Web Development with Rails) wasn't working was that Rails only works with MySQL BLOBs in MySQL 4 and later. Nothing ever checks for the MySQL version, the book never mentions this, the Rails site doesn't mention this, that I can see... Just an ugly "Bad SQL syntax" failure.
This wouldn't be a big problem except that some very common Linux distros come with MySQL 3.x by default -- Fedora Core 3 being one of them most relevant to me. Grrrrrr. I hate wasted time.
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Lasse Koskela
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Joined: Jan 23, 2002
Posts: 11962
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I feel your pain, Ernest.
Are you on #rubyonrails, by the way? The #rubyonrails IRC channel (at irc.freenode.net, port 6667) is a pretty good forum for getting quick answers to small questions...
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Author of Test Driven (2007) and Effective Unit Testing (2013) [Blog] [HowToAskQuestionsOnJavaRanch]
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