Failing to install Nokogiri gem

Question

I\'m working on a rails app that allows for image attachments to each use account. I\'m using paperclip and amazon web services:

gem \'paperclip\'
gem \'aws-         


        

Answer 1

I didn't get the same error message as you, but I wanted to note what I finally found as the extraordinarily simple solution for installing nokogiri on Ubuntu:

Turns out the nokogiri build process depends on patch.

Run: sudo apt-get install patch

I was working on a VM (a vagrant box, actually), which is why I didn't already have patch installed.

The error I got (after a lot of other stuff that looked like an error but was actually just a warning) was:

Extracting libxml2-2.9.2.tar.gz into tmp/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.9.2... OK
Running patch with /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/nokogiri-1.6.6.2/ports/patches/libxml2/0001-Revert-Missing-initialization-for-the-catalog-module.patch...
Running 'patch' for libxml2 2.9.2... ERROR, review '/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/nokogiri-1.6.6.2/ext/nokogiri/tmp/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.9.2/patch.log' to see what happened.

I've deleted the log by now (the above was in my terminal session), but the patch.log file referenced above was absurdly simple; it just said something like patch not found.

Boy did I feel silly for all the digging around I did installing libraries trying to fix it! :)