Question

Hope someone will help me 🙂

So i was having problems with utf8 encoding, when using utf8 chars in my views, for example, from db..

I got this error:

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

And btw, it wasnt a problem wih coding from db..
Anyway, I found the solution for my problem, and it was, to change method in

Ruby193\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\activesupport-3.2.6\lib\active_support\core_ext\string\output_safety.rb

The method i changed was “concat”. So i changed this method:

def concat(value)
  if !html_safe? || value.html_safe?
    super(value)
  else
    super(ERB::Util.h(value))
  end
end
alias << concat

to this:

def concat(value)
  value = (value).force_encoding('UTF-8')
  if !html_safe? || value.html_safe?
    super(value)
  else
    super(ERB::Util.h(value))
  end
end
alias << concat

But ofcourse its a bad idea, since, the app wont work on other servers..

So i want to override this method from my initializers, so i created:

config/initializers/utf8_fix.rb

with this code:

module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
  class SafeBuffer < String
    def self.concat(value)
      value = (value).force_encoding('UTF-8')
      puts "--------------------------------"
      puts "Loaded concat in utf8fix.rb"
      puts "--------------------------------"
      if !html_safe? || value.html_safe?
        super(value)
      else
        super(ERB::Util.h(value))
      end
    end
    alias << concat
  end
end

But it seems that it dosnt override the default method. So can someone tell me, what am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

As “concat” is not class method i dosnt need self before it, so that was my problem..

Solved changing:

def self.concat(value)

to:

def concat(value)