This small patch set adds a few more Ruby libraries to our arsenal, the most important being Nokogiri: A widely used XML parsing library with native C extensions. The official Ruby packaging system cannot capture non-Ruby dependencies outside of developers bundling them in their source releases, so the ruby-nokogiri package is a great example of how Guix improves upon language-specific package managers. As a user of Nokogiri, it's nice to be able to run: guix environment --ad-hoc ruby ruby-nokogiri -E irb And get a Ruby REPL with Nokogiri without having to manually install libxml2, libxslt, and the GCC toolchain from the system package manager and hoped that things were ABI compatible when 'gem install nokogiri' compiled the extension. Thanks to Pjotr for writing the initial version of the Nokogiri package and being patient for the couple of months it took me to get it reviewed and updated for the new Ruby build system. Patches below: