From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-10-11T23:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Install Hpricot gem failure

On 10/11/2010 7:38 AM, flebber wrote:
> I am trying to install Hpricot but receive a build tools error from
> gem install. However I can install nokogiri gem can actually even
> figure I can't type and fixed up my nokogirl entry.
> 
> What do I need to do with hpricot.

From the look of things, nokogiri installed successfully because a
binary version of it was installed, thus avoiding the need to build it
yourself.  Apparently, there is no such binary build of hpricot for your
platform (x86-mingw32).  You need to install the DevKit associated with
your Ruby installation.  I believe you need this one:

http://github.com/downloads/oneclick/rubyinstaller/DevKit-4.5.0-20100819-1536-sfx.exe

Which I located via:

http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

> C:\rubygems-1.3.7>gem install nokogirl
> 
> ********************************************
> It's actually spelled nokogiri, not nokogirl
> ********************************************
> 
> Successfully installed nokogiri-1.4.3.1-x86-mingw32
> Successfully installed nokogirl-1.0
> 2 gems installed
> Installing ri documentation for nokogiri-1.4.3.1-x86-mingw32...
> Installing ri documentation for nokogirl-1.0...
> Installing RDoc documentation for nokogiri-1.4.3.1-x86-mingw32...
> Installing RDoc documentation for nokogirl-1.0...
> 
> C:\rubygems-1.3.7>
> 
> PS package management that picks up typo's pretty narly

Notice that there is actually a gem named nokogirl-1.0 installed along
with nokogiri-1.4.3.1-x86-mingw32.  My guess is that this particular
typo is so common that someone made a dummy gem named nokogirl that
simply depends upon the latest version of nokogiri.  As part of its
installation, nokogirl spits out that message about spelling.

There is no magic here. ;-)

-Jeremy