# Shoes and Mechanize

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-mechanize/163012>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 16, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-mechanize/163012 "2009-03-16T16:47:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-mechanize/163012/1 "2009-03-16T16:47:42Z")

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Did mechanize switch to Nokogiri?

Shoes.setup do  
gem ‘mechanize’  
end

Fails miserably:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/tmp/selfgz9016/shoes --ruby extconf.rb setup.rb  
/tmp/selfgz9016/shoes-bin: no such file to load – oll (LoadError)

Gem files will remain installed in /home/trans/.shoes/+gem/gems/  
nokogiri-1.2.2 for inspection.  
Results logged to /home/trans/.shoes/+gem/gems/nokogiri-1.2.2/ext/  
nokogiri/gem\_make.out  
Signal caught, cleaning up

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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-mechanize/163012/2 "2009-03-16T18:32:17Z")

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:44:09AM +0900, Trans wrote:

> Did mechanize switch to Nokogiri?

Yes.

[http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum\_id=29273](http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=29273)

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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-mechanize/163012/3 "2009-03-17T19:45:38Z")

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trans wrote:

> Okay. Well I hope the Shoes people will make note of this for future  
> fix --I don’t see anywhere to submit a bug report.

You ditz.

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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-mechanize/163012/4 "2009-03-17T17:24:24Z")

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On Mar 16, 1:29 pm, Aaron P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:44:09AM +0900, Trans wrote:
> 
> > Did mechanize switch to Nokogiri?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> [http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum\_id=29273](http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=29273)

Okay. Well I hope the Shoes people will make note of this for future  
fix --I don’t see anywhere to submit a bug report.

T.

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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-and-mechanize/163012/5 "2009-03-17T20:46:53Z")

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On Mar 17, 2:42 pm, Phlip [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> trans wrote:
> 
> > Okay. Well I hope the Shoes people will make note of this for future  
> > fix --I don’t see anywhere to submit a bug report.
> 
> You ditz.

Lol! Now I feel so stupid 😉

T.