An error occurred while installing libv8 (3.16.14.7), and Bundler cannot continue

Snowcrash picture Snowcrash · Jan 10, 2015 · Viewed 12.8k times · Source

I'm getting a cyclic error here:

Bundler::GemspecError: Could not read gem at /path/to/website/vendor/cache/ruby/2.1.0/cache/libv8-3.16.14.7-x86_64-darwin-14.gem. It may be corrupted.
An error occurred while installing libv8 (3.16.14.7), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.7'` succeeds before bundling.

$ gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.7'

Successfully installed libv8-3.16.14.7-x86_64-darwin-14
/Users/snowcrash/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/gems/rdoc-4.0.1/lib/rdoc/markdown.rb:15931: warning: encountered \r in middle of line, treated as a mere space
Parsing documentation for libv8-3.16.14.7-x86_64-darwin-14
Done installing documentation for libv8 after 0 seconds
1 gem installed

$ bundle install --path vendor/cache
... many lines here ...
Using koala (1.10.1) 

Bundler::GemspecError: Could not read gem at /path/to/website/vendor/cache/ruby/2.1.0/cache/libv8-3.16.14.7-x86_64-darwin-14.gem. It may be corrupted.
An error occurred while installing libv8 (3.16.14.7), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.7'` succeeds before bundling.

Any suggestions?

==== UPDATE

I tried deleting all cache data with rm -rf ~/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/cache/ and now bundle install --path vendor/cache gives me:

Bundler::GemspecError: Could not read gem at /path/to/website/vendor/cache/ruby/2.1.0/cache/libv8-3.16.14.7-x86_64-darwin-14.gem. It may be corrupted.
An error occurred while installing libv8 (3.16.14.7), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install libv8 -v '3.16.14.7'` succeeds before bundling.

Answer

David Hempy picture David Hempy · Jun 16, 2020

For MacOS Catalina and Big Sur:

brew install [email protected]
bundle config build.libv8 --with-system-v8
bundle config build.therubyracer --with-v8-dir=$(brew --prefix [email protected])
bundle

(update version numbers as needed)