Rails 3 - (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT):

Question

incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT

I\'m finding lots of old information yet scant advice about this error message but wondered w

Answer 1

For the time being, this can be caused by an issue in Mail 2.5.4, which 'pollutes' the encoding of the mail object.

@email = Email.find(1)
@email.body.encoding # This is a fresh instance from db, still okay
Mail.new(@email.body)
@email.body.encoding # value has been changed