Invalid char `\270' ('�') in expression

I am getting the very strange error below off my code that I do not get
when I use regular ruby (MRI). I am on Leopard and using Java 1.5.

/usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1907:
Invalid char `\270’ (‘�’) in expression

/usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1907:in
class_eval' /usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1907:incompute_type’
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1428:in
instantiate' /usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:582:infind_by_sql’
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:582:in
collect!' /usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:582:infind_by_sql’
/usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:1341:in
find_every' /usr/local/jruby-1.1.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/base.rb:536:infind’
app/controllers/stories_controller.rb:41:in index' :1:instart’

My code around those lines look very normal:

@stories = Story.find :all,
:conditions => “entries.status = 1 AND entries.score > 2”,
:order => “entries.created_at DESC”,
:limit => @story_pages.items_per_page,
:offset => @story_pages.current.offset,
:include => [ :user ]

Can someone please help? I would really like Jruby to work out for me.