On Jun 24, 2009, at 19:08, Michael Fellinger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Martin Hess<martinhess / me.com> wrote:
>> So is it considered best practice to put an encoding comment at the  
>> begging
>> of all your files now days? Such as:
>>
>>         # encoding: utf-8
>>
>> or whatever encoding you like. is this what people are doing or are  
>> they
>> doing it one off for the files that have non-ascii characters?
>>
>> It seems to me that if you have a modern editor it isn't too hard to
>> accidentally slip in some non-ascii characters resulting in some  
>> pain down
>> the road.
>
> It isn't hard to mess up any code in a lot of ways, so as usual, try
> to run/test it before you release/deploy :)
> That also means that using Ruby 1.9.1 for your daily coding might be a
> better choice, otherwise you'll have to use multiruby.

With hoe, it's as easy as:

multiruby_setup the_usual # only once
rake multi