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Hello everyone! Pushing my new rails project I stumbled upon some weird problem. I cannot force WeBRICK to show me my MySQL records in UTF-8. All I recieve into the object (instead of russian letters) are question marks (a la ?????? style). I am running MySQL 4.1 (the one with switchable charsets) and a binary Ruby extension for it, all on OSX. To me it looks like MySQL never recieves what I

Hi This looks like a bug in ActiveRecord. I am messing with eager loading (on 12.1) and all of a sudden records started disappearing from a table (and I am not doing anything delete related)!! The following line works OK:- @todos = Todo.find(:all, :include => [ :whens],:order => "position ASC") The following line is mysteriously deleteing :where rows from the DB after

It seems to me, by looking at the ActiveRecord code (abstract_adapter.rb) that connections are opened and maintained by default on a per Thread basis. This is because Rails is designed to function either with single thread processes (fcgi) or with a pool of Thread which are being reused. The connections are opened once for each thread. If threads are created on each request, connections will be

In Ruby you can add and modify existing classes at will simply by reopening it. The 4 files you mention add functionalities to the InstanceTag class. This is not a redefinition. The best part is that you can do the same ! An easy way to overwrite an existing method or to add new ones is to create a file under you rails application lib directory and put in it the replacement you want to make: