diff --git a/lib/neography/railtie.rb b/lib/neography/railtie.rb
index 520363e..72578a5 100644
--- a/lib/neography/railtie.rb
+++ b/lib/neography/railtie.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ class Railtie < Rails::Railtie
     # See: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Rails/Railtie.html
     initializer 'neography.configure' do
       # Provides a hook so people implementing the gem can do this in a railtie of their own:
-      #   initializer "my_thing.neography_initialization", before: 'neography_railtie.configure_rails_initialization' do
+      #   initializer "my_thing.neography_initialization", before: 'neography.configure' do
       #     require 'my_thing/neography'
       #   end
     end
diff --git a/spec/integration/node_encoding_spec.rb b/spec/integration/node_encoding_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae3eab6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/integration/node_encoding_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe Neography::Node do
+
+  describe "create and new" do
+
+    it "can create a node with UTF-8 encoded properties" do
+      new_node = Neography::Node.create("name" => "美都池水")
+      new_node.name.should == "美都池水"
+    end
+
+    it "can create a node with more than one UTF-8 encoded properties" do
+      new_node = Neography::Node.create("first_name" => "美都", "last_name" => "池水")
+      new_node.first_name.should == "美都"
+      new_node.last_name.should == "池水"
+    end
+
+  end
+
+  describe "load" do
+    it "can get a node with UTF-8 encoded properties that exists" do
+      new_node = Neography::Node.create("first_name" => "美都", "last_name" => "池水")
+      existing_node = Neography::Node.load(new_node)
+      existing_node.should_not be_nil
+      existing_node.neo_id.should_not be_nil
+      existing_node.neo_id.should == new_node.neo_id
+      existing_node.first_name.should == "美都"
+      existing_node.last_name.should == "池水"
+    end
+
+    it "can get a node with UTF-8 encoded properties from an index" do
+      @neo = Neography::Rest.new
+      new_node = Neography::Node.create("first_name" => "美都", "last_name" => "池水")
+      key = generate_text(6)
+      value = generate_text
+      @neo.add_node_to_index("test_node_index", key, value, new_node)
+      node_from_index = @neo.get_node_index("test_node_index", key, value)
+      existing_node = Neography::Node.load(node_from_index)
+      existing_node.should_not be_nil
+      existing_node.neo_id.should_not be_nil
+      existing_node.neo_id.should == new_node.neo_id
+      existing_node.first_name.should == "美都"
+      existing_node.last_name.should == "池水"
+    end
+
+    it "can get a node with UTF-8 encoded properties that exists via cypher" do
+      new_node = Neography::Node.create("first_name" => "美都", "last_name" => "池水")
+      cypher = "START n = node({id}) return n"
+      @neo = Neography::Rest.new
+      results = @neo.execute_query(cypher, {:id => new_node.neo_id.to_i})
+      existing_node = Neography::Node.load(results)
+      existing_node.should_not be_nil
+      existing_node.neo_id.should_not be_nil
+      existing_node.neo_id.should == new_node.neo_id
+      existing_node.first_name.should == "美都"
+      existing_node.last_name.should == "池水"
+    end
+
+    it "can get columns of data from a node with UTF-8 encoded properties that exists via cypher" do
+      new_node = Neography::Node.create("first_name" => "美都", "last_name" => "池水")
+      cypher = "START me = node({id})
+                    RETURN me.first_name, me.last_name"
+      @neo = Neography::Rest.new
+      results = @neo.execute_query(cypher, {:id => new_node.neo_id.to_i})
+      results['data'][0].should == ["美都","池水"]
+    end
+
+  end
+
+end