Actionview::Template::Error (Incompatible Character Encodings: Utf-8 and Ascii-8Bit)

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

I have a suspicion that you either copy/pasted a part of your Haml template into the file, or you're working with a non-Unicode/non-UTF-8 friendly editor.

See if you can recreate that file from the scratch in a UTF-8 friendly editor. There are plenty for any platform and see whether this fixes your problem. Start by erasing the line with #content and retyping it manually.

ActionView::Template::Error (incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT)

After doing some debugging I found out the issue occurs when using the ActionDispatch::Request object which happens to have strings that are all coded in ASCII-8BIT, regardless of whether my app is coded in UTF-8 or not. I do not know why this only happens when using a production server on Linux, but I'm going to assume it's some quirk in Ruby or Rails since I was unable to reproduce this error locally. The error occurred specifically because of a line like this:

@current_path = request.env['PATH_INFO']

When this instance variable was printed in the HAML template it caused an error because the string was encoded in ASCII-8BIT instead of UTF-8. To solve this I did the following:

@current_path = request.env['PATH_INFO'].dup.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8)

Which forced @current_path to use a duplicated string that was forced into the proper UTF-8 encoding. This error can also occur with other request related data like request.headers.

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