Suppress iconv deprecation warnings when running under Ruby 1.9

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/config/environment.rb b/config/environment.rb
index 12501eb89..855174251 100644
--- a/config/environment.rb
+++ b/config/environment.rb
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 # Be sure to restart your web server when you modify this file.
-
-# the default encoding for IO is utf-8, and we use utf-8 internally
 if RUBY_VERSION.to_f >= 1.9
+    # the default encoding for IO is utf-8, and we use utf-8 internally
     Encoding.default_external = Encoding.default_internal = Encoding::UTF_8
+    # Suppress warning messages and require inflector to avoid iconv deprecation message
+    # "iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead." when loading
+    # it as part of rails
+    original_verbose, $VERBOSE = $VERBOSE, nil
+    require 'active_support/inflector'
+    # Activate warning messages again.
+    $VERBOSE = original_verbose
 end
 
 # Uncomment below to force Rails into production mode when