Encoding problems in rails on ruby 1.9.1

Question

I am using rails 2.3.3 and ruby 1.9.1.

I am trying to render a view that includes a partial. In the partial i output a field of a model that is encoded in UTF8. This fai

Answer 1

I just had this as well so I think its worth having the correct answer.

The 2.8.1 MySql gem is not utf-8 friendly, so it sometimes will return UTF strings and lie to Rails, telling it that they are ASCII when in fact they are UTF-8. This makes things explode.

So: you can either monkey patch or get a compatible MySql gem. See: http://gnuu.org/2009/11/06/ruby19-rails-mysql-utf8/