Ignore invalid byte encodings when detecting rails config #854
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Previously if a customer had an invalid byte sequence emitted during boot up, it would raise an error:
Which would prevent configuration detection from functioning correctly.
When detecting rails configuration, we know that the input we are trying to detect for success will be UTF-8. As a result, we can ignore any other encoded characters.
This PR prevents an invalid byte sequence from blocking rails configuration detection.
Reference internal support ticket number: 681812
Here's a blog post on invalid byte sequences if you're interested https://thoughtbot.com/blog/fight-back-utf-8-invalid-byte-sequences.