rails sunspot nokogiri dependency

Question

I am trying to follow the wiki instructions for getting sunspot on rails

https://github.com/outoftime/sunspot/wiki/Adding-Sunspot-search-to-Rails-in-5-minutes-or-less

Everything works fine until when I do:

$ rake sunspot:solr:start
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- nokogiri

However, it looks like I DO have nokogiri installed:

$ gem list 
....
nokogiri (1.4.4)
....

Anyone have any thoughts? I'm on a mac if that makes a difference.

Answer 1

Are you including nokogiri in your Gemfile or environment.rb?

For rails 3 add this line to your Gemfile

gem 'nokogiri'

For rails 2 add config.gem to your environment.rb

config.gem "nokogiri"

It's also quite possible if you're using Rails 3 that your gem list command doesn't reflect the directory where bundler has installed the gems for your app.