Nokogiri issues with Ruby on Rails

Question

I\'m trying to install nokogiri on my machine but I am receiving the following error:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error          


        

Answer 1

After combining many solutions from git issues and SO, this worked for me:

gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.7' -n /usr/local/bin -- --use-system-libraries --with-xml2-include=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/lib/

Although I did prepend sudo.

Answer 2

This seems to be a common issue. You can check the following link

http://www.nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html

You will need to update the Rubygems to 2.4.5 or later and also check whether development tools is installed on you pc.

Or you can do the following if you are using bundle

gem update --system
gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries
bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries
bundle install

Answer 3

I had to use version 1.6.7.rc4-x64-mingw32 (I'm on Windows). Added this line to my Gemfile:

gem 'nokogiri', '~> 1.6', '>= 1.6.7.rc4'