fixed error with ascii error for dashboard

app/models/issue.rb

@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ class Issue < ActiveRecord::Base
   validates_presence_of :assignee_id
   validates_presence_of :author_id
 
+  delegate :name,
+           :email, 
+           :to => :author, 
+           :prefix => true
+
   validates :title,
             :presence => true,
             :length   => { :within => 0..255 }

app/models/note.rb

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ class Note < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :author,
     :class_name => "User"
 
+  delegate :name,
+           :email, 
+           :to => :author, 
+           :prefix => true
+
   attr_protected :author, :author_id
 
   validates_presence_of :project

app/views/commits/_commits.html.haml

@@ -11,15 +11,15 @@
                 %i
               %data.commit-browse{ :onclick => "location.href='#{tree_project_path(@project, :commit_id => commit.id)}';return false;"}
                 Browse Code
-            - if commit.author.email
+            - if commit.author_email
-              = image_tag gravatar_icon(commit.author.email), :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
+              = image_tag gravatar_icon(commit.author_email), :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
             - else
               = image_tag "no_avatar.png", :class => "left", :width => 40, :style => "padding-right:5px;"
             %span.commit-title
               %strong
                 = truncate(commit.safe_message, :length => 60)
             %span.commit-author
-              %strong= commit.author
+              %strong= commit.author_name
               = time_ago_in_words(commit.committed_date)
               ago
 = more_commits_link if @commits.size > 99

app/views/commits/show.html.haml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     %td= @commit.id
   %tr
     %td Author
-    %td= @commit.author
+    %td= @commit.author_name
   %tr
     %td Commiter
     %td= @commit.committer

app/views/dashboard/index.html.haml

@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@
         .data
           - project.updates.each do |update|
             %a.project-update{:href => dashboard_feed_path(project, update)}
-              = image_tag gravatar_icon(update.author.email), :class => "left", :width => 40
+              = image_tag gravatar_icon(update.author_email), :class => "left", :width => 40
               %span.update-title
                 = dashboard_feed_title(update)
               %span.update-author
-                %strong= update.author.name
+                %strong= update.author_name
                 authored
                 = time_ago_in_words(update.created_at) 
                 ago

lib/commit_ext.rb

@@ -12,4 +12,12 @@ module CommitExt
   def created_at
     committed_date
   end
+
+  def author_email
+    author.email.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8)
+  end
+
+  def author_name
+    author.name.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8)
+  end
 end