use-libxml-from-source

#!/bin/sh

# taken mostly from:
# http://martinisoftware.com/2009/07/31/nokogiri-on-leopard.html

# setup libxml2
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz
tar xzvf libxml2-2.7.3.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.7.3
./configure  --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# setup libxslt
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxslt-1.1.25.tar.gz
tar xzvf libxslt-1.1.25.tar.gz
cd libxslt-1.1.25
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-libxml-prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# now install nokogiri and specify where to get libxml2 from
sudo gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/lib