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Ruby on Rails on Passenger and Redmine: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT

March 19, 2013 /

After migrating Redmine to a new server, I've encountered such an error:

ActionView::Template::Error (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT):
    3: <div class="box tabular settings">
    4: <p><%= setting_select :ui_theme, Redmine::Themes.themes.collect {|t| [t.name, t.id]}, :blank => :label_default, :label => :label_theme %></p>
    5: 
    6: <p><%= setting_select :default_language, lang_options_for_select(false) %></p>
    7: 
    8: <p><%= setting_select :start_of_week, [[day_name(1),'1'], [day_name(6),'6'], [day_name(7),'7']], :blank => :label_language_based %></p>
    9: <% locale = User.current.language.blank? ? ::I18n.locale : User.current.language %>
  app/helpers/settings_helper.rb:40:in `setting_select'
  app/views/settings/_display.html.erb:6:in `block in _app_views_settings__display_html_erb__83012438_101817890'
  app/views/settings/_display.html.erb:1:in `_app_views_settings__display_html_erb__83012438_101817890'
  app/views/common/_tabs.html.erb:24:in `block in _app_views_common__tabs_html_erb__985403460_101198110'
  app/views/common/_tabs.html.erb:23:in `each'
  app/views/common/_tabs.html.erb:23:in `_app_views_common__tabs_html_erb__985403460_101198110'
  app/helpers/application_helper.rb:263:in `render_tabs'
  app/views/settings/edit.html.erb:3:in `_app_views_settings_edit_html_erb__815292708_88944890'
  app/controllers/settings_controller.rb:26:in `index'

My database and all my configs were set to UTF8, so it looked like the problem was somewhere in Apache. Partialy I was right. To fix this issue, you need to add following lines:

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

to /etc/apache2/envvars and then just restart server:

# /etc/apache2/envvars
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError) with Ruby on Rails

February 13, 2013 /

Lately when starting Unicorn instances, I've encountered following issue:

$ bundle exec unicorn_rails -c config/unicorn.rb -E production -D
/gems_path/lib/bundler.rb:294:in `block in load_gemspec_uncached': 
  invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError)
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler.rb:291:in `chdir'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler.rb:291:in `load_gemspec_uncached'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler.rb:282:in `load_gemspec'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/source.rb:411:in `block in load_spec_files'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/source.rb:410:in `each'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/source.rb:410:in `load_spec_files'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/source.rb:799:in `load_spec_files'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/source.rb:381:in `local_specs'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/source.rb:774:in `specs'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/lazy_specification.rb:53:in `__materialize__'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/spec_set.rb:86:in `block in materialize'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/spec_set.rb:83:in `map!'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/spec_set.rb:83:in `materialize'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/definition.rb:113:in `specs'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/definition.rb:158:in `specs_for'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/definition.rb:147:in `requested_specs'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/environment.rb:23:in `requested_specs'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:11:in `setup'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler.rb:116:in `setup'
	from /gems_path/lib/bundler/setup.rb:7:in `<top (required)>'
	from /gems_path/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
	from /gems_path/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'

There are two ways to fix this. You can export language settings to your shell:

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

or you can put this into your Gemfile:

if RUBY_VERSION =~ /1.9/
  Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
  Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
end

Both methods should work.

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