On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM, A. Mcbomb <atomicmcbomb / gmail.com> wrote: > That definately helped, Jesus....thanks. > > Here is what I get now when I run the test script: > > [server01][/usr/bin]$ ./test.rb > HI. ¨Βου§ςυσιξμιβψνμφεςσιο²®¶®±¶ χθιγισ οφες ωεαςομαξ> has > plenty of bugs. ¨Βσυηηεστθατ ζοναψινυΘΤΝΜ―ΨΝΜ παςσιξπμεασυςε> you > upgrade your version of libxml2 and re-install nokogiri. ¨Βωομιλε > using > libxml2 version 2.6.16, but don't like this warning, please define the > constant > I_KNOW_I_AM_USING_AN_OLD_AND_BUGGY_VERSION_OF_LIBXML2 before requring > nokogiri. > > > This sounds like I should upgrade....would you recommend just simply > replacing the one file (libxml2) and then reinstall the gem or are there > more files that I should replace such as libxslt as well? > > thank you so much for helping me to get this going Jesus! What OS (and version are you on?). I have a pretty old version of Ubuntu (8.10) and have libxml2.so.2.6.32. To correctly upgrade a library, please use your OS facilities (apt, yum or whatever). Jesus.