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Can I somehow configure Rails to avoid the need to add # coding: utf-8 to all files? Or must I add it to each file manually?

UPD

To improve my life I have found this gem:

magic_encoding

It won't fix the problem, but it will add magick line to each file. Related topic: Why are all strings ASCII-8BIT after I upgraded to Rails 3?

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  • nope, only `magic_encoding gem` – fl00r Dec 04 '11 at 12:12
  • don't you mean # encoding: utf-8 ? From what I read, you can't avoid it, but you can configure your IDE to add this line by default to new .rb files or use the magic_encoding gem from time to time. – ChuckE Oct 04 '12 at 09:52

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In a rails application you can specify the default chracter encoding in your application config.

Add the following code inside the Application class in in config/application.rb

Looks something like:

# Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
config.encoding = "utf-8"
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    Yep, that is default encoding which is not exactly about the issue. YOu still need to define encoding in each file. – fl00r Aug 13 '11 at 11:16
  • it does not prevent apache/passenger to horribly fail when you forgot one `# encoding: UTF-8` – Syl Jun 18 '13 at 18:50