Making Nokogiri install again on Mountain Lion

09 Aug 2012

As probably any geek out there, I upgraded my OS to Apple Mountain Lion.

The upgrade created a lot of problems for me, I basically had to reinstall almost everything, from MySql to homebrew.

I am not sure if everyone experienced the same thing, but that was the case for me.

One of the problems I encountered was that I could not install Nokogiri anymore on my machine, bundler would not install it and complain about dependencies not being installed (specifically libxml)

To fix it, you need to reinstall Ruby using RVM with livxml properly linked.

First, install libxml and libxslt through homebrew, like so:

brew install libxml2 libxslt
brew link libxml2 libxslt

If that doesn’t work you probably need to install libiconv like so:

cd	
mkdir temp
cd temp
ls
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
tar xvfz libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
cd libiconv-1.13.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1
make
sudo make install

And then install libxml and libxslt again

brew install libxml2 libxslt
brew link libxml2 libxslt

Once that’s done without errors, reinstall Ruby.

rvm reinstall ruby-1.9.3-p194

RVM will figure out those libraries location and properly install Ruby with those linked up.

Enjoy!