# Ferret Gem Install fails under Locomotive

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-gem-install-fails-under-locomotive/89693>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 22, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-gem-install-fails-under-locomotive/89693 "2007-03-22T03:16:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-gem-install-fails-under-locomotive/89693/1 "2007-03-22T03:16:12Z")

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Hi all,

Hoping somebody can shed some light on this for me, haven’t been able  
to find any posts anywhere about similar problems.

I was trying to install the ferret gem under locomotive. I opened the  
terminal through locomotive so it had the correct paths set, and ran  
“sudo gem install ferret”. This is the error I received:

Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby extconf.rb install ferret  
creating Makefile

make  
sh: line 1: make: command not found

Gem files will remain installed in /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/  
rmagickRailsJan2007\_x86.locobundle/framework/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/  
ferret-0.11.3 for inspection.  
Results logged to /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/  
rmagickRailsJan2007\_x86.locobundle/framework/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/  
ferret-0.11.3/ext/gem\_make.out