Ruby-dev and mkmf

Ruby
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Hi,

I’m new to ruby, I’m trying to clarify some install instructions:

“Don’t forget to install ruby-dev to and mkmf gem.”

are these gems, I can’t seem to find anything about them.

Thanks
Brian

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I’m new to ruby, I’m trying to clarify some install instructions:

“Don’t forget to install ruby-dev to and mkmf gem.”

are these gems, I can’t  seem to find anything about them.

Hi,

Those are packages you should install if your copy of ruby is from a
package manager (like apt in Ubuntu/Debian, yum in Fedora, etc). If
you are running on Windows or building from source I don’t think you
have to worry about those.

-Jonathan N.

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Jonathan N. wrote:

I’m new to ruby, I’m trying to clarify some install instructions:

“Don’t forget to install ruby-dev to and mkmf gem.”

are these gems, I can’t  seem to find anything about them.

Hi,

Those are packages you should install if your copy of ruby is from a
package manager (like apt in Ubuntu/Debian, yum in Fedora, etc). If
you are running on Windows or building from source I don’t think you
have to worry about those.

-Jonathan N.

Hi,

I’m doing this on dreamhost, which is a debian system.I listed the
installed gems, these didn’t come up.

Thanks
Brian