Reputation: 2486

Error while installing Ruby on Rails

I am trying to install Ruby on Rails on my local machine for development purposes, but I have hit upon an error. I can't quite tell, but it seems like it might be a gem error. Though, this is my first time trying to use all three, Ruby, Gem and Rails, so I'm not sure.

Running the command "sudo gem install rails -V" these are the last few lines printed after the error is hit:

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

    /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)  
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from extconf.rb:13:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/atomic-1.1.14 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/atomic-1.1.14/ext/gem_make.out

The version of Ruby installed is:

ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [i686-linux]

The version of gem is:

1.8.23

Upvotes: 0

Answers (3)

ksu

Reputation: 608

What Linux do you have?

On Mint, i did:

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install curl
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
sudo apt-get install git-core
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)
rvm autolibs enable
rvm reload
rvm requirements
sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion
rvm install ruby-2.0
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

and it works fine. This will (currently) install Ruby 2.0 and rails 4.0 however.

Upvotes: 1