The issue

I was doing practice of Github workflow by making a basic task app using Rails

I was using

• ruby:3.1.2-alpine3.14 (for the base image)
• Rails 7.0.4

Initially, everything was going smoothly but once I shut down the computer one day and came to work on it again, I started getting error from Nokogiri every time I try to bundle install in the container.

Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

The fix

I’ve tried a few things but the one solved the problem was adding

RUN apk add --no-cache libc6-compat && ln -s /lib/libc.musl-x86_64.so.1 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

to the Dockerfile that builds the image for ruby.

I came to this idea in through the following steps

I started the container and in the shell, I simply ran

gem install nokogiri

which worked

Then, in irb, I tried to require nokogiri. Which threw an error like

Error loading shared library ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory

When I googled, I hit on this Qiita article, which said to run the command above.

It seems that it is based off of the stackoverflow article but tbh, I have no idea why it did the fix.

I’m just noting here so that someone who might have a similar problem can fix it. Or, future me might benefit from it once I remake the Dockerfile for another practice run 😅