Ruby19 encoding issues

ruby1.9 encoding issues

To upgrade without any errors you should add this line at the top of all your ruby scripts:

# encoding: utf-8

otherwise it’ll throw SyntaxErrors: “invalid multibtyte char (US-ASCII)”

Also you should use mysql2 gem (or new versions of pg and sqlite-ruby) in your application, otherwise you’ll see:

Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encoding: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT

from:http://def-end.com/post/3065938198/ruby1-9-encoding-issues