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difficulty installing hpricot in Ruby 1.9.2

I am using Ruby 1.9.2 and i have an assignment to use hpricot. I have tried to install hpricot gem and I get error messages. extconf.rb failed. Could not create makefile. Check the mkmf.log. But I cannot find mkmf.log.

I checked the other answers and tried to install using gem install hpricot-platform=mswin32. that didnt work either.

Should I reinstall Ruby version 1.8?

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Is hpricot required? Nokogiri should work for you, and IIRC, it has a compatibility layer so that it can act as a drop-in replacement for hpricot if needed.

ehsanul  2010-10-26 01:37:10
It is for an assignment. The professor wants us to use hpricot. I checked the link on devkit and installed that. Now hpricot seems to work - but I get an incompatible character encodings error : UTF-8 and ASCII- 8BIT. Am I still missing something? Thanks for the help.
 2010-10-26 11:14:09
What exactly are you doing when you get the error? Do you know how Ruby 1.9.2 handles character encodings? Here's a link, you can google for more info if you need: http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/ruby_19s_string
ehsanul  2010-10-27 00:00:12

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