DAVID CHUA - Development Notes of a Ruby Server GeekIf you ever get this error message: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x90\x8D\x83\xF0\x90...' for column 'content' at row You probably have experienced at one point, the horrors that is mysql’s utf8 4-byte encoding. If you’re using MySQL 5.4 and below, there’s no way to solve this without a proper upgrade to at least MySQL 5.5. My steps: Ensure I’m using the latest version (MySQL > 5.5) Setup your /et
