steak.gemspec contains é character - causes rake tasks to fail in some server environments

[enable]

After installing the Steak gem in our staging environment (using bundle install), we receive the following when running any rake task. (we are using ruby-1.9.2-rc1, rails-3.0.0.beta4, bundler-1.0.0.beta.2, Debian 5.0.2)

rake aborted!

/var/www/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc1/bundler/gems/steak-347880e/steak.gemspec:9: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/var/www/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc1/bundler/gems/steak-347880e/steak.gemspec:9: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)
/var/www/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc1/bundler/gems/steak-347880e/steak.gemspec:9: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ']'
gem.authors  = ["Luismi Cavallé"]

We don't encounter this problem in our development environment (OS X 10.6.4)

I know it's not ideal, but is be possible to alter the gemspec, to change gem.authors from ["Luismi Cavallé"] to ["Luismi Cavalle"] ? Otherwise, is it possible my UNIX server config (or ruby installation) needs correcting?

[bebanjo]

AFAIK Steak has never been tested under ruby 1.9.x. Ruby 1.9 is definitely in the TODO for Steak 1.0 which is the next milestone.

Patches to improve support for ruby 1.9.x, fixing this or other related issues, are welcome.

[enable]

Hi, we've had great success, so far, using Steak with Ruby 1.9.2. See the following commit, in our Steak Github fork, that fixes the issue for us:

http://github.com/enable/steak/commit/096c517fa8a3432d4330845ab9228c72b3d40585

[bebanjo]

I think this issue should also be solved by adding a comment like this at the top the file:

# encoding: utf-8

I'd rather do that and keep the "é" if possible

[enable]

Hi, yes your solution work perfectly (see commit below). Thanks a lot

http://github.com/enable/steak/commit/b23e643586a6f45c5bd8f021da4d036362b45774