Hello! It doesn't seem to depend on hoe: https://rubygems.org/gems/nokogiri/versions/1.4.3 $ gem dependency nokogiri Gem nokogiri-1.4.3.1 hoe (>= 2.6.0, development) minitest (>= 1.6.0, development) racc (>= 0, development) rake-compiler (>= 0, development) rexical (>= 0, development) rubyforge (>= 2.0.4, development) -- Best regards, Alexander