require 'stringio' require_relative '../../spec_helper' describe "StringIO#set_encoding" do it "sets the encoding of the underlying String if the String is not frozen" do str = "".encode(Encoding::US_ASCII) io = StringIO.new(str) io.set_encoding Encoding::UTF_8 io.string.encoding.should == Encoding::UTF_8 end it "does not set the encoding of the underlying String if the String is frozen" do str = "".encode(Encoding::US_ASCII).freeze io = StringIO.new(str) io.set_encoding Encoding::UTF_8 io.string.encoding.should == Encoding::US_ASCII end end