Ernie, play nice with Rails!

gistfile1.rb

# Rails will cause the encoding to slip to ASCII-8BIT for some reason.
# This works fine when all rails libraries aren't loaded onto the ernie process
class Ernie
  def self.write_berp(output, ruby)
    data = BERT.encode(ruby)
    output.write([data.length].pack("N").force_encoding("utf-8"))
    output.write(data.force_encoding("utf-8"))
  end
end