in `require': no such file to load — iconv (LoadError)

Question

    ➜  expertiza git:(master) ✗ ruby -v
    ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin11.1.0]
    ➜  expertiza git:(master) ✗ rails -v
    Rails 2.3.14
             


        

Answer 1

For those using rbenv instead of rvm

$ which iconv
$ /usr/local/bin/iconv

Then use the directory location of iconv to reinstall ruby

$ CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-iconv-dir=/usr/local" rbenv install 1.8.7-p358

Good luck

(As a side note, this error has been reported to happen in Ruby 1.8.7-p3xx)