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

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I solved it by following these steps:

  • Make sure config.encoding = "utf-8" is in the application.rb file.
  • Make sure you are using the ‘mysql2’ gem.
  • Put # encoding: utf-8 at the top of file containing UTF-8 characters.

  • Above the <App Name>::Application.initialize! line in the environment.rb file, add following two lines:

    Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8

http://rorguide.blogspot.com/2011/06/incompatible-character-encodings-ascii.html

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