# Problems deploying to heroku

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-deploying-to-heroku/228136>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [April 10, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-deploying-to-heroku/228136 "2013-04-10T20:00:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-deploying-to-heroku/228136/1 "2013-04-10T20:00:12Z")

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## Hi everybody, I´m a newbee in Rails. I have a problem, it´s with a new project connection with heroku website (for testing and deployment). The issue is that I want to deploy the project and when i try to use “git push heroku master” everything seams to work ok, but at the end i receive the following message:

## Installing sqlite3 (1.3.7) Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for sqlite3.h… no sqlite3.h is missing. Try ‘port install sqlite3 +universal’ or ‘yum install sqlite-devel’ and check your shared library search path (the location where your sqlite3 shared library is located). \*\*\* 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=/usr/local/bin/ruby –with-sqlite3-dir –without-sqlite3-dir –with-sqlite3-include –without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include –with-sqlite3-lib –without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib –enable-local –disable-local Gem files will remain installed in /tmp/build\_3aqjxnpimoxm1/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sqlite3-1.3.7 for inspection. Results logged to /tmp/build\_3aqjxnpimoxm1/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/sqlite3-1.3.7/ext/sqlite3/gem\_make.out An error occurred while installing sqlite3 (1.3.7), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install sqlite3 -v '1.3.7'` succeeds before bundling. ! ! Failed to install gems via Bundler. ! ! Heroku push rejected, failed to compile Ruby/rails app To removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid:afternoon-tundra-9601.git ! [remote rejected] master -\> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to ‘removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid:afternoon-tundra-9601.git’

## I have been looking around in google and in the heroku help and i think this is a database problem. My project have the Gemfile configured this way:

## group :development, :test do gem ‘sqlite3’ end group :production do gem ‘pg’ end

And i try to bundle --without production but i can´t fix it.  
I suppose that i have to install the PostgreSQL database, but i don´t  
know how can i do that.  
I have a MAC OS X 10.6 snow leopard.  
Can you help me with this?  
Thanks in advance.