Maximum length on a textarea in Ruby on Rails

Question

I tried applying the :maxlenght => 40 on a textarea on my form. But it didn\'t work out. Can we have a length limit on a textarea?

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Answer 1

Not strictly what you're after of course, but, you can always put a:

validates_length_of :data, max: 40

on your model. Won't stop the textarea size of course :)