I applied the one-line patch to my just installed Rails 2.3.5 - but it does not help. Well, it does help with one issue: I no longer get an error when a partial is to be rendered. Instead I now get an error later, where I call a helper function in the view which <%= some_function() %> which returns some HTML.

"incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT" once more.

Given these issues, how can ANYONE be using ruby 1.9.1 at this point? Or are those who are able to use it using ASCII as default encoding for all files? I (most certainly!) use UTF-8, as it should be in this world. The ASCII-60s and 70s and maybe 80s are long over...

I'm not (usually) concerned with the inner workings of ruby and rails, just use it (even though I consider myself "hard-core" in other fields I don't want to become an expert with everything). What I find disturbing is that I find no guidelines on Rails and Ruby 1.9.1. I just assumed it should be working by now, since I read a lot of "fixed ruby 1.9 compatibility issues" in Rails and Passenger.

Does (all of) this discussion mean it isn't so, it's still experimental? I cannot imagine my application is very special.