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Created February 10, 2013 14:46
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The pretty way to break away of invalid utf-8 byte sequence error in ruby 1.9 # code got from http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/42664369166/fight-back-utf-8-invalid-byte-sequences
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ruby_encode_utf8
def replace_name(body, name)
body
.encode('UTF-8', 'binary', invalid: :replace, undef: :replace, replace: '')
.gsub(/joel/, name)
end
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