1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/railties/lib/rails.rb b/railties/lib/rails.rb
index c23b67e321..85aeb4af24 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 require "pathname"
 
+require 'active_support'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/logger'
+require 'action_dispatch'
+
 require 'rails/initializable'
 require 'rails/application'
+require 'rails/plugin'
 require 'rails/railties_path'
 require 'rails/version'
 require 'rails/rack'
@@ -10,4 +16,18 @@ require 'rails/core'
 require 'rails/configuration'
 require 'rails/deprecation'
 require 'rails/initializer'
-require 'rails/plugin'
-\ No newline at end of file
+require 'rails/ruby_version_check'
+
+# For Ruby 1.8, this initialization sets $KCODE to 'u' to enable the
+# multibyte safe operations. Plugin authors supporting other encodings
+# should override this behaviour and set the relevant +default_charset+
+# on ActionController::Base.
+#
+# For Ruby 1.9, UTF-8 is the default internal and external encoding.
+if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
+  $KCODE='u'
+else
+  Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
+end
+
+RAILS_ENV = (ENV["RAILS_ENV"] || ENV["RACK_ENV"] || "development").dup unless defined?(RAILS_ENV)