# No such file to load -- iconv

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-iconv/175332>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 11, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-iconv/175332 "2009-09-11T12:09:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![kadoudal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kadoudal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kadoudal)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-iconv/175332/1 "2009-09-11T12:09:07Z")

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trying to update an application (2.3.2 to 2.3.4) I run  
rake rails:update --trace

got the error :  
rake aborted!  
no such file to load – iconv  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in  
`gem\_original\_require’

is it a missing lib in Ruby ?  
I recently installed it from scratch  
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10.0.0]

should I recompile it ?

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**Author:** ![kadoudal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kadoudal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kadoudal)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/no-such-file-to-load-iconv/175332/2 "2009-09-18T14:10:45Z")

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try to recompile it with the option ‘–with-iconv-dir=/usr/  
local’ (replace /usr/local with whereever your iconv is installed).  
That worked for me.

Andi