• Problem Installing Typo Gem

    We have a rails server that we wanted to install the typo gem onto.  Alas, our attempts to install the gem kept failing with the following error:

    
    Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
    ERROR:  Error installing typo:
    	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
    
    /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install typo
    checking for fdatasync() in -lrt... yes
    checking for sqlite3.h... no
    
    make
    make: *** No rule to make target `ruby.h', needed by `sqlite3_api_wrap.o'.  Stop.
     

    If you are seeing this error, it means you are likely missing a SQLite3 library or 2. We always use MYSQL, so we did not have any SQLite3 packages installed. Since it was failing on a build, we installed the libsqlite3-dev package. This was all we needed to do and the typo gem installed perfectly with all its dependencies.

    On Ubuntu, do the following to install:

    sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

    Redhat\Centos will be different (for us, substitute apt-get for yum)




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