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• “Anybody know of good short-to-medium-term housing in SF?
  Try airbnb, ‘vacation rentals by owner’, or homeaway.

Interesting Things

• If you’re setting up a postgres database using ActiveRecord, and you see an error that looks like this:

  new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)

then the problem may be that your template1 database (the default database that postgres copies from when you CREATE DATABASE) is configured to use ASCII, rather than UTF8. Try adding this option to the relevant section of your database.yml:

template: template0

More information about Template Databases in postgres

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