# FXRuby not seeing Ruby headers **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 26, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693 "2006-05-26T05:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elamericano)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693/1 "2006-05-26T05:02:58Z")
I’m trying to install FXRuby (in order to user FreeRIDE. Are there any better free Ruby IDE’s out there?) but get the following when trying to configure it: strauss@bash ~/Downloads/Ruby/ext/fxruby-1.4.6 \> ruby install.rb config install.rb: entering config phase… —\> lib —\> lib/fox14 \<— lib/fox14 \<— lib —\> ext —\> ext/fox14 /usr/bin/ruby /Users/Strauss/Downloads/Ruby/ext/FXRuby-1.4.6/ext/fox14/extconf.rb can’t find header files for ruby. config failed 'system /usr/bin/ruby /Users/Strauss/Downloads/Ruby/ext/FXRuby-1.4.6/ext/fox14/extconf.rb ’ failed Try ‘ruby install.rb --help’ for detailed usage. What am I doing wrong? I don’t understand why it can’t find Ruby’s header files. Any help would be great. ---
**Author:** ![elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elamericano)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693/2 "2006-05-26T05:10:23Z")
Yes, you can try RADRAILS It is still on beta but much better than a simple editor [www.radrails.org](http://www.radrails.org) It is based on Eclipse technology Omar ---
**Author:** ![elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elamericano)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693/3 "2006-05-29T16:40:55Z")
On 5/25/06, B. Strauss [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > What am I doing wrong? I don’t understand why it can’t find Ruby’s > header files. Any help would be great. Which operating system is this? If you’re running Linux, it may be that you haven’t installed the “dev” package for Ruby, i.e. the package that includes such header files. ---
**Author:** ![elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elamericano)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693/4 "2006-05-29T16:45:47Z")
Lyle J. wrote: > Which operating system is this? > > If you’re running Linux, it may be that you haven’t installed the > “dev” package for Ruby, i.e. the package that includes such header > files. It’s Darwin (Unix) on Mac OS X. ---
**Author:** ![elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elamericano)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693/5 "2006-05-29T21:06:16Z")
On 5/29/06, B. Strauss [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It’s Darwin (Unix) on Mac OS X. OK. And have you done the “fix” for Apple’s pre-installed Ruby on Mac OS X? See: ``` http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2005/04/ruby_182_in_tig.html ``` – Lyle ---
**Author:** ![elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elamericano)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693/6 "2006-05-30T23:57:16Z")
Lyle J. wrote: > On 5/29/06, B. Strauss [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > It’s Darwin (Unix) on Mac OS X. > > OK. And have you done the “fix” for Apple’s pre-installed Ruby on Mac OS > X? See: > > ``` > http://richkilmer.blogs.com/ether/2005/04/ruby_182_in_tig.html > > ``` > > – Lyle i have the latest version installed, does that still apply? it doesn’t matter, though, i’m going to use radrails, which is excellent ---
**Author:** ![elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@elamericano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elamericano)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fxruby-not-seeing-ruby-headers/61693/7 "2006-06-03T04:53:09Z")
Okay, I’m having the same problem again when trying to install the postgresql gem: $ gem install postgres Attempting local installation of ‘postgres’ Local gem file not found: postgres\*.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘postgres’ ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EACCES) Permission denied - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/postgres-0.7.1.gem $ sudo gem install postgres Password: Attempting local installation of ‘postgres’ Local gem file not found: postgres\*.gem Attempting remote installation of ‘postgres’ Building native extensions. This could take a while… can’t find header files for ruby. ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/postgres-0.7.1 for inspection. ruby extconf.rb install postgres\n What do I do?