RubyInstaller 2.2.1 and Rails - Rake cannot load Nokogiri

Question

recently I installed Ruby 2.2.1 with the new RubyInstaller on Windows. To check whether everything was working I went into a rails app and ran bundle install wh

Answer 1

You can try to use cross-compilled gem. For me works fine.

1. Remove all versions of nokogiri installed previously

   gem uninstall nokogiri

2. Download gem from https://github.com/paulgrant999/ruby-2.2.2-nokogiri-1.6.6.2-x86-x64-mingw32.gem

3. Install using one of the next commands:

   For 64bit Ruby: gem install --local nokogiri-1.6.6.2-x64-mingw32.gem

   For 32bit Ruby: gem install --local nokogiri-1.6.6.2-x86-mingw32.gem

4. Lock version of nokogiri i your Gemfile:

   gem 'nokogiri', '1.6.6.2'