Thanks for the insight, but I think the issue is at the rails level. Since when I tried inserting the same values in the mysql db directly, it worked without any errors. It might be because the character that I am trying to insert is not UTF8. But rails is enforcing that encoding. What would be the encoding change required to be done at rails level?
Also, I have a system where I would need to scale things later. So, I would have to change the encoding of a particular table every time I have to create a new instance. Is there any way to deal with that? On Monday, January 5, 2015 11:43:31 PM UTC+5:30, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Kriti Aggarwal <krit...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Following are the encodings/collations and versions that I am using: > > Rails : utf8, 4.0 > > Mysql: latin_general_ci, 14.14 Distrib 5.5.40 > > Well, it should be pretty obvious you have a mismatch there, which is > a problem. But there's not just one encoding-related variable. Example: > > mysql> show variables like '%char%'; > +--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+ > > > | Variable_name | Value > | > +--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+ > > > | character_set_client | utf8 > | > | character_set_connection | utf8 > | > | character_set_database | utf8 > | > | character_set_filesystem | binary > | > | character_set_results | utf8 > | > | character_set_server | utf8 > | > | character_set_system | utf8 > | > | character_sets_dir | > /usr/local/mysql-5.6.13-osx10.7-x86_64/share/charsets/ | > +--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+ > > > 8 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > mysql> show variables like '%coll%'; > +----------------------+-----------------+ > | Variable_name | Value | > +----------------------+-----------------+ > | collation_connection | utf8_general_ci | > | collation_database | utf8_general_ci | > | collation_server | utf8_general_ci | > +----------------------+-----------------+ > 3 rows in set (0.01 sec) > > You want, at the least, all of those consistent. If you need the 4-byte > character capability, then set them appropriately. > > Note: you'll need to manually alter (or drop and recreate) existing > databases/tables afterwards. > > HTH, > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.s...@gmail.com > <javascript:> > http://about.me/hassanschroeder > twitter: @hassan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/1646bb47-2dc1-4306-8112-c663e008b0e8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
