Redmine

+1.

You also cant add it to the Gemfile.local so u need to change it after each update.

+1

net-ldap-1 is actually not the same gem but a gem specifically bundled for this fix ; the problem has been fixed in net-ldap master but is maybe not to be released soon because project has become inactive since then.

Sad to see that there's no stable gem for using LDAP. I would prefer to include the patch in Redmine rather than switching to this gem. Does this single fix below solve the encoding problems?

https://github.com/ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap/pull/44/files

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

Sad to see that there's no stable gem for using LDAP. I would prefer to include the patch in Redmine rather than switching to this gem. Does this single fix below solve the encoding problems?

https://github.com/ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap/pull/44/files

Yes, that shall fix it.

Please pull this patch into the next release, as redmine_ldap_sync is a major plugin and without in some cases unsuable.

In the meanwhile I've included the following patch on the ldap_sync plugin.

require 'net/ldap'

module Net::BER::Extensions::String
  def raw_utf8_encoded
    if self.respond_to?(:encode) && self.encoding.name != 'ASCII-8BIT'
      self.encode('UTF-8').force_encoding('ASCII-8BIT')
    else
      self
    end
  end
end

If it gets integrated on the next release I'll remove it.