Implicit ASCII <=> UTF8 casting between Cocoapod <=> Macruby is not working

[barttenbrinke]

If I use the Bas64+NSData Cocoapod and I wrap a Ruby function around it, to use it's native implementation of Base64. something goes wrong. The Bas64 encoded string is incorrect. I think the implicit casting that is going on is doing something wrong. As RubyMotion does not support ASCII string, I cannot explicitly cast it to fix it.

See this Gist for an example:
https://gist.github.com/2786823

[alloy]

With the introduction of an official API in iOS 7, this becomes slightly less important. In case you’re running into other pitfalls due to this, then please file an official RubyMotion support ticket.