Question

I’m trying to get the sanitize gem up and running. I’ve installed sanitize and nokogiri 1.3.3 as required, but when I try and use it in my application_helper.rb:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sanitize'

I get the error:

MissingSourceFile 
no such file to load -- sanitize
RAILS_ROOT: C:/Ruby/GWS

(stack trace)

This error occurred while loading the following files:
   sanitize

I also get the error if I require nokogiri, but I don’t if I require another gem such as rmagick.

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling both nokogiri and santitize, but with no luck.

Update:
If I run the require command from irb I get an error about racc not being found. If I try to install racc I get the error message at error while installing ruby gem

Answer 1

Here’s how I fixed it.

Add the following to config/environment.rb

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.gem 'nokogiri', :version => '~> 1.3.3', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
end

gem 'nokogiri', '~> 1.3.3'

require 'nokogiri'

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.gem 'sanitize', :version => '~> 1.1.0', :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
end

gem 'sanitize', '~> 1.1.0'

require 'sanitize'

then run

rake gems:install

(I also had to uninstall and reinstall the gems but that may have been due to problems with one of my gem sources which I had added after the original issue arose).