# Excerpt gets too long under certain circumstances: "ActiveRecord::ValueTooLong"

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**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [1월 9, 2018, 1:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpt-gets-too-long-under-certain-circumstances-activerecord-valuetoolong/77579 "2018-01-09T13:28:45Z")\
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> [@gerhard](#):
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> or at least include only the summary.

Include, and _count_ the summary, of course.

It’ll still fail with repeated extremely short summaries, so you could set a floor of a details block always counting for at least 40 characters or so (because they take vertical space, so you don’t want more than about 2 in an excerpt).

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