I've just done a fresh reinstall of OS X Snow Leopard on my mac, and I'm having all kinds of problems with Rails, but the latest problem has me stumped.
Whenever I run rake db:seed to populate my database I hit the following error: ** Invoke db:seed (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db:seed rake aborted! uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars::Encoding /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:105:in `const_missing' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/multibyte/chars.rb:86:in `initialize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb:44:in `new' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/multibyte.rb:44:in `mb_chars' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:798:in `validates_uniqueness_of' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:468:in `validates_each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:465:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:465:in `validates_each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:182:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:182:in `evaluate_method' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:166:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:90:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:90:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:90:in `send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:90:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:276:in `run_callbacks' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:1098:in `valid_without_callbacks?' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/callbacks.rb:315:in `valid_without_lifecycles?' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/hobo-0.8.10/lib/hobo/lifecycles.rb:67:in `valid?' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/validations.rb:1077:in `save_without_dirty' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/dirty.rb:79:in `save_without_transactions' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:229:in `send' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:229:in `with_transaction_returning_status' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:136:in `transaction' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:182:in `transaction' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:228:in `with_transaction_returning_status' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:196:in `save' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:208:in `rollback_active_record_state!' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:196:in `save' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.4/lib/active_record/base.rb:723:in `create' /Users/iainbeeston/Documents/Programs/Ruby/inspect/db/seeds.rb:9 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:145:in `load_without_new_constant_marking' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:145:in `load' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:145:in `load' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/tasks/databases.rake:215 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `execute' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:in `invoke' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in `invoke_task' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:in `top_level' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load' /usr/bin/rake:19 It turns out that it's failing when it tries to do validate_unique on a text field. When I look into the rails code that's throwing the error it's coming up because it can't find Encoding::UTF_8. What's more, if I skip db:seed and just start up the webserver I get a different error but it comes down to the exact same cause (can't find Encoding::UTF_8). The problem is that I can't even figure out where this module is supposed to be! Is it rails or is it ruby? Or is it expecting a gem that I don't have? I really have no idea (and google isn't helping much). My setup is: Ruby 1.8.7 Rails 2.3.4 Database Mysql 5.1 64bit (MySQL gem 2.8.1 also in 64bit) OS Mac OSX SNow Leopard 64bit Has anyone seen this before? Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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