Hi there,
I am currently writing a rails app using bleeding edge stuff. Rails3, rSpec2, Ruby 1.9.2 and Geokit 1.5.0. When i try to geocode addresses that have special characters that are not in ASCII-8Bit i get this error:
incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
The Trace is like this:
1) Spot Basic Validations should calculate lat and lng
Failure/Error: spot = Spot.create!({
incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/geokit-1.5.0/lib/geokit/geocoders.rb:435:in `do_geocode'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/geokit-1.5.0/lib/geokit/geocoders.rb:126:in `geocode'
# ./app/models/spot.rb:26:in `geocode_address'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activesupport-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:409:in `_run_validation_callbacks'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activemodel-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_model/validations/callbacks.rb:53:in `run_validations!'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activemodel-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_model/validations.rb:168:in `valid?'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/validations.rb:55:in `valid?'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/validations.rb:75:in `perform_validations'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/validations.rb:49:in `save!'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/attribute_methods/dirty.rb:30:in `save!'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:242:in `block in save!'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:289:in `block in with_transaction_returning_status'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:139:in `transaction'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:204:in `transaction'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:287:in `with_transaction_returning_status'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/transactions.rb:242:in `save!'
# /Users/nilsriedemann/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/activerecord-3.0.0.rc/lib/active_record/validations.rb:34:in `create!'
# ./spec/models/spot_spec.rb:13:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
I used # coding: utf-8 in all of my related files (specs, factories and model). Yet i get this error when i use an address like "Elsassers Straße 27".
Any hints? I thought Geokit was already compatible with 1.9.1 and therefore with all this new encoding thing.