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Fix rails database collations

Today I discovered my Ruby on Rails development environment database migrated with the wrong character encoding. It was using the MySQL default encoding latin1.
I didn't feel throwing my database away because it contains a lot of stuff.

I used the following snippet to convert all columns to utf8 

    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.each do |table|
      ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute( "ALTER TABLE `#{table}` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci")
    end

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