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I''m struggling with activerecord and mysql blobs (uploading files)... blobs over 400K-ish cause the below exception... ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in File#upload Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: I''ve tried blob, mediumblob, and longblob... I''m using windows xp for development - and have not installed the mysql gem... simlar google

I''ve got a block of code that''s turning out.. well - just plain ugly. So i know I must not be doing it the Ruby way. The main problem I''m having is in dealing with handling errors - and just not finding much Rails documentation that gives a deeper understanding of how to handle errors in Rails (outside of several docs on the catch-all''s) the main method