An error occurred while installing nokogiri (1.5.2)

Question

When I try to run a ruby on rails project I got an error:

An error occurred while installing nokogiri (1.5.2), and bundle cannot continue.
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Answer 1

It should not be necessary to install any additonal package. You can use the libraries includes with BitNami (in /opt/bitnami/common). You just need to load the BitNami environment and specify the path to libxml2 files. While testing this I got similar issue but with libxml2, a similar solution can be applied for the iconv error that you are receiving.

$/opt/bitnami/rubyconsole

$sudo gem install nokogiri  -- --with-xml2-dir=/opt/bitnami/common --with-xml2-include=/opt/bitnami/common/include/libxml2

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed nokogiri-1.5.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.5.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for nokogiri-1.5.2...

The solution of installing the system packages and used them should also work.