Howto install the nokogiri gem on Ubuntu

I’ve been wanting to test the nokogiri gem since it was announced. The library is supposed to be a faster html/xml parser than hpricot. Since I’ve used hpricot in a few projects I felt it would be worth testing. I had received strange errors when trying to install earlier versions which I never bothered to resolve. As of version 1.0.7 the only issues are that certain libraries need to be installed. Here are the steps I used:

• sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
• sudo gem install nokogiri