Hi, I’m brand new to rails, and I have a mac 10.7 that I bought
today. I try the following:
joelrwesley$ sudo gem install rails
Password:
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
ruby extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can’t find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/
Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/
json-1.6.5 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/json-1.6.5/ext/json/ext/
parser/gem_make.out
joelrwesley$
Hi, I’m brand new to rails, and I have a mac 10.7 that I bought
today. I try the following:
joelrwesley$ sudo gem install rails
Password:
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Have you installed Xcode (or at the very least apple’s gve command
line tools package)?
You’ll need that when installing gems with native extensions.
Thanks Fred. I downloaded the latest Xcode last night, turned the
computer off for the night, and tried it again this morning. No go;
same message. I’m also supposed to be able to write gcc -v to test
the compiler from Xcode, but I’m getting an error on that also. I
tried going into Xcode and starting a project, and it seems to be
working. Xcode is now being distributed at the App store, instead of
off of the disk. I wonder if that has something to do with it? I’m
thinking of maybe trying to put it on my hard drive from the disk for
the old Leopard from my old machine.
As for Apple’s gve command line tools, package, I don’t know what that
is.
Thank you for the advice, Valery. I tried that, and (I believe)
followed the instructions at the rvm page. I say I believe, because
these instructions always seem to lead to a number of things that one
might reasonably try, though there’s no clear notion of what one
really should be doing… argh. anyway, I got to the last
instruction, which is to type rvm install 1.9.3, and I got the
following:
joelrwesley$ rvm install 1.9.3
Fetching yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/archives
Extracting yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src
Configuring yaml in /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4.
Compiling yaml in /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4.
Installing yaml to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/usr
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/rubies/
ruby-1.9.3-p125, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)…
ruby-1.9.3-p125 - #fetching
ruby-1.9.3-p125 - #extracted to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-
p125 (already extracted)
ruby-1.9.3-p125 - #configuring
Error running ’ ./configure --prefix=/Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/rubies/
ruby-1.9.3-p125 --enable-shared --disable-install-doc --with-libyaml –
with-opt-dir=/Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/usr ', please read /Users/
joelrwesley/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p125/configure.log
There has been an error while running configure. Halting the
installation.
joelrwesley$
So I went in and read the log. Here’s what it said:
joelrwesley$ emacs configure.log
[2012-02-26 11:39:47] ./configure --prefix=/Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/
rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125 --enable-shared --disable-install-doc --with-
libyaml --with-opt-dir=/Users/j
oelrwesley/.rvm/usr
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-libyaml
checking build system type… i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
checking host system type… i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
checking target system type… i386-apple-darwin11.3.0
checking whether the C compiler works… no
configure: error: in /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p125': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Seeconfig.log’ for more details
native mac os’ ruby 1.8 - too old to waste your time if you want to