Ruby 1.9 - invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

Question

Im trying to make my rails application (2.3.5) to run on Ruby 1.9, I\'ve this function that make some transformations on a string:

def replace_special_chars(         


        

Answer 1

Write # encoding: utf-8 on top of that file. That changes the default encoding of all string/regexp literals in that file utf-8. The default encoding for all literals is US-ASCII, which cannot represent á.