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Ruby

Is Nokogiri required for bundling [ODOT Project]? Error when bundling.

I get the following error when bundling. I inserted this code in my Gemfile:

group :development, :test do
    gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 2.0'
end

group :test do
    gem 'capybara', '~> 2.1.0'
end

Afterwords I got this error:

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /Users/myname/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/ruby extconf.rb 
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
-----
libiconv is missing.  please visit http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for help with installing dependencies.
-----
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more details.  You may
need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
    --with-opt-dir
    --without-opt-dir
    --with-opt-include
    --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
    --with-opt-lib
    --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
    --with-make-prog
    --without-make-prog
    --srcdir=.
    --curdir
    --ruby=/Users/guled/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/bin/ruby
    --help
    --clean
    --use-system-libraries
    --enable-static
    --disable-static
    --with-zlib-dir
    --without-zlib-dir
    --with-zlib-include
    --without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include
    --with-zlib-lib
    --without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib
    --enable-cross-build
    --disable-cross-build

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /Users/myname/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.2.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/myname/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-13/2.1.0-static/nokogiri-1.6.2.1/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing nokogiri (1.6.2.1), and Bundler cannot
continue.
Make sure that `gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.2.1'` succeeds before bundling.

I did not see the instructor download 'nokogiri' whatsoever.

2 Answers

Nokogiri is a dependency of capybara, so it is required if you want the feature specs to work. Not sure why it is failing to install for you. Here's an old post with information that may be helpful. https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/gem-nokogiri-error

Thank you.

Nokogiri is a dependency of capybara, so it is required if you want the feature specs to work. Not sure why it is failing to install for you. Here's an old post with information that may be helpful.