Invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII (ArgumentError) about data-movies

[brycepg]

The author has definitely abandoned this project. It's written for an old version of ruby, and I think the imdb data format may have changed a little.

One of the pull requests fixes this issue as well as some other issues. To use his fixes run

 git clone https://github.com/andreykurenkov/data-movies -b update-2016
 cd data-movies
 bash run-all.sh

This will checkout the branch of his(update-2016) from his repo and run the script he made which downloads everything, sets up the sqlite schema, and runs the ruby scripts.

For Ubuntu 16.04 I needed to install sqlite3 as well as the gem arrayfields (gem install arrayfields). You can use sqlitebrowser to verify the output database at movies.sqlite3.

It looks like all the data has been moved to the Movies table. The Genre table is not functional (missing foreign key)

[kmmbvnr]

02-import.rb:36:in `match': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)
    from 02-import.rb:36:in `block (2 levels) in import_times'
    from 02-import.rb:33:in `each_line'
    from 02-import.rb:33:in `block in import_times'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/sqlite3/database.rb:500:in `transaction'
    from 02-import.rb:32:in `import_times'
    from 02-import.rb:117:in `<main>'

yeah, same error