Nokogiri Ruby gem cannot be installed (urgent)

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OK I resolved it and it’s nothing to do with nokogiri specifically - but yet another reason not to use git submodules.

Here’s the details

  • We have a gem containing all our gem dependencies that is in a submodule
  • we have a initial step in our netlify.toml build step that updates ALL the submodules to latest before ruby build
  • I had added nokogir to the the gem but not updated the ref in the using git repo (as I’m used to the build step refreshing them all)
  • the netlify build does a git clone before reading the gemfile and fetching all the required gems.

So tha failure was the nokogiri gem was never fetched as the submodule ref was to the version before I added nokogiri! The error correctly said it’s wanted but not in the image as it had not been fetched. D’oh

That took a while to figure.

I don’t expect a solution from you as it’s unusual to put all the deps in a gem AND put that in a submodule - don;t ask - I inherited this architecture :wink:

Thanks

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