Ruby Mysql cannot insert special character

Question

using ruby's mysql gem i'm inserting a new row into a table wich has encoding utf8_spanish_ci.

here's the code i'm executing

require 'mysql'
con = Mysql.new(#connecionparameters)
rs = con.query("INSERT INTO `qubi_horoscopo`.`signos` (`name`) VALUES ('acción')")

and when i query the table i get the following result :

id name

1 acción

i've checked that i'm using the same collation in the database, table and column. so i don't know what's going wrong.

any idea? thanks!

Answer 1

I've solved this executing

con.query("SET NAMES UTF8")

right before my insert query.

i hope this helps anyone having the same problem. i don't know if it's the best solution.