Ruby Mechanize getting force_encoding exception

Question

At least sometimes when I navigate to a page I get this exception

undefined method `force_encoding' for #<String:0x898922c>

Anyone else seen this problem?

Answer 1

Most likely a 1.8 incompatibility bug in Mechanize:

http://github.com/eric/mechanize/commit/7fd877c60cbb3855652c390c980df1dedfaed820

Answer 2

Yes following the gem hack above it works.