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OK, This occurs because i’ve upgraded to ruby 1.8.7 (had to do this to get mislavs will_paginate to install on windows)

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Ruby 1.8.7 has String#chars.
It returns an Enumerator object
but Rails 2.0.2 expects an ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars object.

You can avoid this conflict by putting
the following code in config/initializers/ directory.

—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--
unless ‘1.9’.respond_to?(:force_encoding) String.class_eval do begin remove_method :chars rescue NameError # OK end end
end
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—--

Note: activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/unicode.rb
of Rails 2.1.0 removes “chars” method from String class of Ruby 1.8.7.

Make a test to prove this, and then submit a patch to the core!