myronmarston/vcr — comment on commit ccb6e831c7aee8a4ccd55cf1d1ab0053a0349fba
File: lib/vcr/structs.rb line 49
By myronmarston:

So that `body_from` can call `try_encode_string` and trust that it is available as a method even if it's running in an environment that doesn't support encodings (e.g. 1.8).