Is Nokogiri necessary for Rails?

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I updated my Ruby from 1.9 to 2.2 and I found that the Nokogiri gem doesn't support Ruby 2.2 on Windows. Nokogiri was not in my Gemfile, but when I run bundle install it is automatically added. Maybe there are some dependency for it?

This is a very small project and I don't understand its necessity for the project.

Is it possible to use Ruby 2.2 without Nokogiri? Or should I downgrade to 1.9 again?

See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28985328/rubyinstaller-2-2-1-and-rails-rake-cannot-load-nokogiri — knut, Nov 04 '15 at 23:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 04 '15 at 20:01

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It looks like it is a dependency of some gem, which is included in your Gemfile.

You can search for nokogiri in your Gemfile.lock to find a gem which is requiring it.

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the Tin Man

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answered Nov 04 '15 at 12:35

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 04 '15 at 20:00

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It looks like Nokogiri is required by rails-dom-testing which is required by Action Pack and Action View in Rails 4.2.3, so it seems difficult to bypass it.

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the Tin Man

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answered Nov 04 '15 at 12:43

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 05 '15 at 00:09

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See https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1256

tl;dr, in your Gemfile:

gem 'nokogiri', '>= 1.6.7.rc3'

for Windows.

answered Nov 05 '15 at 00:09

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Is Nokogiri necessary for Rails?

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