diff --git a/snippets/ruby.snippets b/snippets/ruby.snippets
index 37826f3..f41f027 100644
--- a/snippets/ruby.snippets
+++ b/snippets/ruby.snippets
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Ruby snippets - for Rails, see below #
 ########################################
 
+# encoding for Ruby 1.9
+snippet enc
+	# encoding: utf-8
+
 # #!/usr/bin/env ruby
 snippet #!
 	#!/usr/bin/env ruby