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copied!<p>Can't seem to figure this one out, trying to run any script I get this error:<br> <code>invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)</code></p> <p>I have a new OS X machine everything fresh, using Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2.1 , I've been developing for days with no problem.</p> <p>I left for a few hours today and now I can't run any scripts.</p> <p>I first got the error trying a new migration and thought it was an issue with Postgres, reinstalled, made sure all tables were encoded with UTF-8.</p> <p>I've also reinstalled RVM and Rails.</p> <p>I thought it would be easier to debug if it had to do with the database, but I've created new applications and can't even start the server, receiving the same error.</p> <p>Full stack trying to run the server in a new application on sqlite3<br></p> <pre><code> /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0@global/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:136:in `split': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0@global/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:136:in `setup_environment' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0@global/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:13:in `setup' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0@global/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler.rb:110:in `setup' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0@global/gems/bundler-1.0.21/lib/bundler/setup.rb:7:in `' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:59:in `require' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:59:in `rescue in require' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in `require' from /Users/mgaughan/Code/something/config/boot.rb:6:in `' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from script/rails:5:in `'</code></pre> <p>Now the more I look at it there is obviously something screwed up with postgresql because in applications on postgresql, bundle fails install pg</p> <p>Stack trace: </p> <pre><code> Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for pg_config... *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/ruby --with-pg --without-pg --with-pg-dir --without-pg-dir --with-pg-include --without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include --with-pg-lib --without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/lib --with-pg-config --without-pg-config --with-pg_config --without-pg_config /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:1357:in `split': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError) from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:1357:in `find_executable0' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:1384:in `block in find_executable' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:790:in `block in checking_for' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:284:in `block (2 levels) in postpone' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in `open' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:284:in `block in postpone' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:254:in `open' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:280:in `postpone' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:789:in `checking_for' from /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/mkmf.rb:1383:in `find_executable' from extconf.rb:27:in `' Gem files will remain installed in /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/pg-0.12.2 for inspection. Results logged to /Users/mgaughan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/pg-0.12.2/ext/gem_make.out An error occured while installing pg (0.12.2), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install pg -v '0.12.2'` succeeds before bundling. </code></pre> <p>The mkmf.log file it mentions to check is blank.</p> <p>So I'm guessing that Postgresql might be the root of this problem, but I'm pretty stumped as to why a new application using sqlite3 would still throw this byte error.</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated, let me know if there's any more info I can provide.</p> <h2>Edit</h2> <p>The problem seemed to have resolved itself.</p> <p>The only change to my machine I made was as @Frederick Cheung suggested; I removed an sbin folder from my Path that was from an old NGINX install that had been uninstalled.</p> <p>Possibly that was the difference, but it seems unlikely to me.</p> <p>Regardless, I ran a command and everything was working fine and has been for days.</p>

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