Error - “gem install rails” - libxml2 is missing

Question

I\'ve been working through the Rails install instructions (http://railsapps.github.io/installrubyonrails-mac.html) and everything was okay up until I got to gem instal

Answer 1

I had the same issue, on Debian it seemed only a problem of missing 'dev' libraries, probably needed to compile sources during installation (I'm guessing). I solved it by installing (via apt-get or aptitude) the following packages:

• Libxml2-dev
• Libxslt1-dev

Answer 2

I just had the same problem and was able to solve it as follows:

Installing Nokogiri separately worked only when using the system libraries:

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries

...but was still failing when executing bundle install. So just configure bundler to also build Nokogiri using the system libraries:

bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries