On 1 Feb 2012, at 11:22, Andrew Stewart wrote: > - At the bottom of config/environment.rb: > > Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8 > Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8 Moving these lines to the top of config/environment.rb seems to have fixed everything. Sorry for the false alarm! Cheers, Andy ------- http://airbladesoftware.com