What is a robust installation process for Nokogiri (on Ubuntu)?

Question

I tried to install Nokogiri on my Ubuntu 12.04 system, and got an error that said \"libxslt is missing\", but the libxslt-dev and libxml2-dev

Answer 1

I'm pretty new to ruby, but this...

gem install nokogiri -v '1.5.2' -- --with-xml2-lib=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu --with-xml2-include=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-xslt-lib=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu --with-xslt-include=/usr/include/libxslt

...worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04. (Or, anyway, it satisfied the nokogiri dependency and got me one step closer to what I'm really trying to accomplish.) I thought it might have messed up my RVM magic, but nokogirl-1.5.2 is definitely sitting there in ~/.rvm/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems, so...maybe it's all good?