Ruby on rails — hold on tight aespa

The Ruby on Rails Tutorial; The Ruby on Rails mailing list; The #rubyonrails channel on irc.freenode.net; 11 Configuration Gotchas. The easiest way to work with Rails is to store all external data as UTF-8. If you don't, Ruby libraries and Rails will often be able to convert your native data into UTF-8, but this doesn't always work reliably, so ... cheating on you