How to install Nokogiri on Mac OS Sierra 10.12

Question

I\'m having troubles installing Nokogiri (1.6.8.1) on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.

I tried using brew install libxml2 libxslt and then referencing the install direc

Answer 1

Try install libxml2 first with Homebrew.

brew install libxml2

Then if installing with bundle

bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries \
  --with-xml2-include=$(brew --prefix libxml2)/include/libxml2
bundle install

If installing directly with gem

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries \
  --with-xml2-include=$(brew --prefix libxml2)/include/libxml2