Quoting Paul Harrington <[email protected]>: > Paul Harrington wrote: > > Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > >> Am I correct in assuming that the max length of a string is 65,535 on a > >> 32 bit > >> platform? Anyway around this, other classes, 64 bit platform? > >> > >> TIA, > >> Jeffrey > > > > What would make you assume this? Simplest demonstration: > > > > irb(main):004:0> s = "a"*70000;nil > > => nil > > irb(main):005:0> s.size > > => 70000 > > irb(main):006:0> > > > > Also, keep in mind Ruby has no separate representation for raw 8bit > > data. Only Strings. How would it be able to store a 65KB+ file in > > memory? > > > > The only limit to Ruby string is is available memory. > > btw that irb session was > irb(main):001:0> RUBY_VERSION > => "1.9.1" > irb(main):002:0> RUBY_PLATFORM > => "i386-mingw32"
I find the same results. Checking further, I find that it's MySQL TEXT column that is limited to 65,535 bytes. Thank you, Jeffrey irb(main):001:0> s = "a"*70000;nil => nil irb(main):002:0> s.size => 70000 irb(main):003:0> RUBY_VERSION => "1.8.7" irb(main):004:0> RUBY_PLATFORM => "i586-linux" irb(main):005:0> -- 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.
