nokogiri gem installation error

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2020 April 6th Update:

macOS Catalina 10.15

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries=true --with-xml2-include=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include/libxml2/

macOS Mojave 10.14

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries=true --with-xml2-include=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/libxml2/

macOS High Sierra 10.13

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries=true --with-xml2-include=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.13.sdk/usr/include/libxml2/

macOS Sierra 10.12:

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries=true --with-xml2-include=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.sdk/usr/include/libxml2/

OS X El Capitan 10.11

gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries=true --with-xml2-include=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/usr/include/libxml2/

Consider to add sudo if you don’t have permission.

For some reason Apple’s Yosemite version of OSX does not have a system accessible installation of libxml2. Nokogiri requires this in order to compile and luckily Xcode has a version of libxml2 bundled with it — we just need to specify it when installing the gem. It’s important to get Nokogiri installed correctly because as of right now Rails 4.2.1.rc4 automatically attempts to install it and you will feel pain.

Checkout this post for more info.

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