Mechanize force encoding error

By Nacho Martín on 17 January 2010

Ruby’s mechanize gem is very useful, specially when combined with Nokogiri. But if you find an encoding error like:

/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.9.3/lib/www/mechanize/page.rb:37:in `initialize': undefined method `force_encoding' for <String:0xb7410070> (NoMethodError)

Then you will need to apply this patch ;)

http://github.com/eric/mechanize/commit/7fd877c60cbb3855652c390c980df1dedfaed820