Heroko problem / can't install gem pg

Rails
1

Hello guys,

I didn’t touch ror for a while. Today i tried to upload an easy static
page to heroku.
I got the error: we’re sorry but something went wrong.
So i researched a bit and found out that i need to install the gem pg
for heroku now.

But when i write it in the gemfile and run sudo bundle install i get:

Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native
extension.

    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/

ruby extconf.rb
checking for pg_config… no
No pg_config… trying anyway. If building fails, please try again
with
–with-pg-config=/path/to/pg_config
checking for libpq-fe.h… no
Can’t find the 'libpq-fe.h header
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
–with-opt-dir
–without-opt-dir
–with-opt-include
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
–with-opt-lib
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
–with-make-prog
–without-make-prog
–srcdir=.
–curdir
–ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/
ruby
–with-pg
–without-pg
–with-pg-dir
–without-pg-dir
–with-pg-include
–without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include
–with-pg-lib
–without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/lib
–with-pg-config
–without-pg-config
–with-pg_config
–without-pg_config

Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/
pg-0.13.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.13.1/ext/
gem_make.out
An error occured while installing pg (0.13.1), and Bundler cannot
continue.
Make sure that gem install pg -v '0.13.1' succeeds before bundling.

btw: a mkmf.log file does not exists

so i tried sudo gem install pg -v ‘0.13.1’

and got:

Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing pg:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/

ruby extconf.rb
checking for pg_config… no
No pg_config… trying anyway. If building fails, please try again
with
–with-pg-config=/path/to/pg_config
checking for libpq-fe.h… no
Can’t find the 'libpq-fe.h header
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
–with-opt-dir
–without-opt-dir
–with-opt-include
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
–with-opt-lib
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
–with-make-prog
–without-make-prog
–srcdir=.
–curdir
–ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/
ruby
–with-pg
–without-pg
–with-pg-dir
–without-pg-dir
–with-pg-include
–without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include
–with-pg-lib
–without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/lib
–with-pg-config
–without-pg-config
–with-pg_config
–without-pg_config

Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/
pg-0.13.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.13.1/ext/
gem_make.out

I also did some research to fix this problem and only found this:

PATH=$PATH:/Library/PostgreSQL/8.3/bin sudo gem install pg

and this didn’t worked - no wonder i didn’t install PostgreSQL.

any ideas?

best regards

Sascha

2

Have you installed Postgre on your computer?
If you just want to use Postgre on heroku and… lets say mysql/sqlite
on
your computer
then in your gemfile do this

group :development do
gem ‘sqlite3’
end

group :production do
gem ‘pg’
end

run bundle
and then start again your push to heroku (do another commit… push etc
etc
etc)

Javier Q

3

For a short while i got postgres-pr ?
But its uninstalled atm. Could that be a problem for the PATH?

I tried like you said. But the problem remains, if i try bundle
install i get this error message about pg.
And when i try heroku push, it says:

Heroku push rejected, failed to install gems via Bundler

Well, how i said it’s just a static page. Just to show some
Informations. I don’t need databases or anything.

Is pg really essential for heroku now?

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Genji [email protected] wrote:

Informations. I don’t need databases or anything.

Is pg really essential for heroku now?

I forgot something

bundle --without production

after that just do

git commit …

and then push

git push heroku …

and it has to work

Javier Q.

5

Thanks now it works!

Sad that this wasn’t the reason ;(
still getting:
We’re sorry, but something went wrong.(500)

I should have done my research better ;(

This is the wrong line:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag “application”, :media => :all %>

I’m searching now for a solution :wink: before the rails update i just
used <%= stylesheet_link_tag :all %> :smiley:

Thank you for your help!

6

Sorry little mistake the wrong line is:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag “application”, :media => “all” %>

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Genji [email protected] wrote:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag “application”, :media => :all %>

I’m searching now for a solution :wink: before the rails update i just
used <%= stylesheet_link_tag :all %> :smiley:

Thank you for your help!

maybe you just use

<%= stylesheet_link_tag “application” %>

It will grab the application.css and if you look inside the file you’ll
see
a line like this

//= require_tree .

and it will use the other css files so you don’t need to keep on adding
each file (or maybe add what you need)

If it shows errors… you can type “heroku logs” and see what happened

Javier Q

8

My problem was that heroku logs showed me no errors first- but now.
I am working to solve the problems now, its bit more than the
stylsheet.
(Maybe I shouldn’t do this at 2:43 am :D)

have a nice day! (or night)

9

I got to fix all problems now :slight_smile:

i had to to set config.assets.compile = true ( config/environments/
production.rb)

Thanks, you helped me a lot!

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Genji [email protected] wrote:

My problem was that heroku logs showed me no errors first- but now.
I am working to solve the problems now, its bit more than the
stylsheet.
(Maybe I shouldn’t do this at 2:43 am :D)

have a nice day! (or night)

Well here is 20:52. :slight_smile:

Javier Q.

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Genji [email protected] wrote:

I got to fix all problems now :slight_smile:

i had to to set config.assets.compile = true ( config/environments/
production.rb)

Thanks, you helped me a lot!

Well … its rare because as far as I know that comes already in
production.rb

Anyway, I’m glad you’ve solved it :slight_smile:

Javier Q.