While trying to use the following gems:
require 'nokogiri'
require 'restclient'
require 'mechanize'
I'm getting the following error:
C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- ffi_c (LoadError)
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/ffi-1.9.10-x86-mingw32/lib/ffi.rb:6:in `rescue in <top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/ffi-1.9.10-x86-mingw32/lib/ffi.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x86-mingw32/lib/restclient/windows/root_certs.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x86-mingw32/lib/restclient/windows.rb:7:in `require_relative'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x86-mingw32/lib/restclient/windows.rb:7:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x86-mingw32/lib/restclient.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:133:in `require'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:133:in `rescue in require'
from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:40:in `require'
from parse_docs.rb:5:in `<main>'
Since the last thing on this list is line 5, which is require 'restclient' I'm guessing it has something to do with that? However I've attempted to do the following:
Since restclient is deprecated and has moved to rest-client, I tried using rest-client however that doesn't work and produces the same error.
I've also attempted to require 'rubygems' but that when I run the program, it will not allow me to continue and produces the same error.
So I completely took out restclient, this is how I got the idea that restclient is causing the problem , because without it there, the program can run successfully.
So I though what would happen if I rolled back on ffi? So I installed the ffi version that is needed to run restclient However, that didn't help either.
Updated all my gems, still throwing the same error..
Downloaded the latest version on ffi, nothing changes, except now I havea new version of ffi on my system, that's still throwing an error when being used with restclient
Why is restclient producing the ffi error, I've never had this happen to me before. Is rest-client deprecated? Or is there a simple solution that I'm not catching onto? I've researched this, and nobody has had this problem (while using restclient) however there is a ton of people who have gotten this error while using other gems. For example see also here. It might also be worth mentioning that I'm running Windows 7.
So I found an answer to this, it had to do with Holger Just's answer with a minor tweak, I'm pretty sure my case is pretty unique because my company likes to hide behind a VPN script. So here's how I did it:
ffi using the platform flag: gem install ffi --pre --platform=rubygem update --all (I think that's the correct syntax for the flag)That got ffi working.