“Error installing rails” because “extconf.rb failed” on Ubuntu 18.04

Here are the docs to install nokogiri https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html, there is a note for rvm:

Note for RVM users: you may require libgmp, consider running sudo apt-get install libgmp-dev.

Remove ruby with rvm https://rvm.io/rubies/removing

rvm remove 2.6.0

Install

Ruby

rvm install 2.6.0

Rails

gem install rails

For a existing project

bundle install

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