rake test and error : log writing failed. “\xE2” from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8

Question

When I run rake test, I get error line every time.

log writing failed. \"\\xE2\" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8  

Please guide on this.

Answer 1

Are you using postgresql? Your database might be using SQL_ASCII. You can check if it is by running psql template1 -c 'show server_encoding' Delete the database cluster and reinitialize it with initdb -E utf8 /path/to/database.