Question

I have a rails application and i keep getting this error

  /srv/projects/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:174: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) /srv/projects/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:174: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) /srv/projects/app/controllers/application_controller.rb:174: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' ...e_title = h("#{project_name} — #{name || translate_locatio... ... ^

and the fix should be here but when i added the line on top of my application controller i still get the error…i even restarted apache

Here is my application controller

# Filters added to this controller apply to all controllers in the application.
# Likewise, all the methods added will be available for all controllers.

# encoding: utf-8


class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
# encoding: utf-8

Answer 1

The encoding comment must be on top of the file before anything else – including other comments (except the shebang if you have one).