Long installation time?

[daliborfilus]

Installing this gem takes very long time on relatively fast machines? I don't see nothing in the code indicating it should take that long?

EDIT: it takes very long only if it is a part of a bundle. gem install mini_portile is fast, but bundle hangs on Installing mini_portile for a very long time. Could it be some misunderstanding between bundler and this gem, or am I completely wrong?

[luislavena]

@noice that is because the installation of mini_portile is not the issue, but another gem that depends on it is.

This is the case of nokogiri, which uses mini_portile to build libxml2 and related libraries to avoid dependency on system provided ones.

You can short the installation time by telling nokogiri to use system libraries:

$ gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries

As indicated in Nokogiri source:

https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/blob/master/ext/nokogiri/extconf.rb#L22

Read Bundler's documentation on how to provide configuration options for gems:

http://bundler.io/v1.6/man/bundle-config.1.html

Hope that helps.

[daliborfilus]

Ah, thanks for explanation.