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Asked: 2026-05-18T12:49:04+00:00

I am needing to change a column type from text to longtext in my

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I am needing to change a column type from text to longtext in my Rails script, but can’t find anything on how to do this.

Has anyone ran across this?

Thanks!
Dennis

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  1. Editorial Team

    The text type handles tinytext, text, mediumtext, and longtext for MySQL, if that’s what you’re using. Just specify the upper bound using :limit => ...

    Example:

    change_column :articles, :body, :text, :limit => 4294967295

    The default value of limit is 65535, as expected.

    1 to 255 bytes: TINYTEXT
256 to 65535 bytes: TEXT
65536 to 16777215 bytes: MEDIUMTEXT
16777216 to 4294967295 bytes: LONGTEXT

    The MySQL documentation can be found here.

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