Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1

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Notice that now you have a ‘encoding’ options that’s set to UTF8 by default. The Rails app itself loads up with KCODE = true by default as well, meaning that it silently starts with Unicode support already, which is great. But that ‘encoding’ configuration has a new usage as well: everytime Rails connects to the database it will tell it to use this ‘encoding’ setting. Like issuing a ‘

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