<p>I'm doing some searching of tags, and some users like "cat" while others like "Cat"  Go figure...</p>

<p>Anyways, is there a way to force a particular find to be case sensitive?  Such as:</p>

<pre><code>Tag.find(:some-special-option-here)
</code></pre>

<p>Any ideas?</p>

In the mysql database, set your text's data type to utf_collate_bin. For example:
```
```
ALTER TABLE `sets` CHANGE `set_name` `set_name` VARCHAR( 64 ) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL
```
```
Where 'sets' is the table, 'set_name' is the column of type VARCHAR(64). You can also do this in PhpMyAdmin..
Any binary collate will do the job; but utf8 is preferable.
If you were wondering what the _ci at the end of your current collate is, it means "Case Insensitive" :p