diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb
index eb61a7fc22c9d..e03a74425755d 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogiri.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-require 'nokogiri'
+begin
+  require 'nokogiri'
+rescue LoadError => e
+  $stderr.puts "You don't have nokogiri installed in your application. Please add it to your Gemfile and run bundle install"
+  raise e
+end
 require 'active_support/core_ext/object/blank'
 
 # = XmlMini Nokogiri implementation
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb
index 8af7b5e565e51..38c8685390c18 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/xml_mini/nokogirisax.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-require 'nokogiri'
+begin
+  require 'nokogiri'
+rescue LoadError => e
+  $stderr.puts "You don't have nokogiri installed in your application. Please add it to your Gemfile and run bundle install"
+  raise e
+end
 require 'active_support/core_ext/object/blank'
 
 # = XmlMini Nokogiri implementation using a SAX-based parser
@@ -80,4 +85,4 @@ def parse(data)
       end
     end
   end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end