How can I avoid putting the magic encoding comment on top of every UTF-8 file in Ruby 1.9?

Question

I have a Rails project with a lot of Cyrillic strings in it.

It worked fine on Ruby 1.8, but Ruby 1.9 assumes source files are US-ASCII-encoded unless you provide a

Answer 1

There's a gem that sets the magic comment on top on every file that needs it in a Rails project : https://github.com/m-ryan/magic_encoding

You just install it and run magic_encoding in the root of your project, problem solved.