I've been struggling with the same issue a few times, and the solution that worked for me was to use a different mysql driver: ruby-mysql
# in config/environment.rb: config.gem 'ruby-mysql' # or in Gemfile: gem 'ruby-mysql' The encoding must also be set in config/database.yml: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Heinz Strunk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried to migrate one of my applications from ruby 1.8 to ruby 1.9 > and get following error: > Showing app/views/layouts/application.html.erb where line #48 raised: > incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8 > > 48: <%= render :partial => 'layouts/menu' %> > > I added "<%# coding: utf-8 %>" in application.html.erb and > layouts/_menu.rhtml but it still throws that error, anyone knows why? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
