Add "# coding: utf-8" to all files

Question

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?

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
– ChuckE, Commented Oct 4, 2012 at 9:52

Mario Visic · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-12 10:35:24Z

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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"

answered Aug 12, 2011 at 10:35

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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.

it does not prevent apache/passenger to horribly fail when you forgot one # encoding: UTF-8