I don't think anyone really develops, or deploys Ruby on Windows so nobody
probably tests any Gems on Windows. Hopefully someone here is an exception and
can help you.
You could run a local headless Linux VM and SSH into it...
On Oct 1, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
I am attempting to write my first small Ruby app, but I am running into
major problems just getting off the ground developing in Windows. I
downloaded the most recent Ruby 2.0 package from RubyInstaller. Then I
installed DevKit so I could use gems. After some fiddling, I was finally
able to install some gems.
Some.
For any given gem I try to install, there’s about a 25% chance that I get
this byzantine error:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
[…a whole bunch of gibberish about C headers and so forth…]
In particular, I am trying to install the Blather XMPP client. I am tempted
to just give up and develop on Linux, but I am wanting to deploy this
script to Windows machines and figure I might run into problems if I don’t
develop in Windows. I have Googled the heck out of this issue and can’t
find anything that is similar to my case (the solutions on the
RubyInstaller Github wiki did not work). Do any of you Ruby people know why
I might be having this error so frequently in my Windows environment?
Josh Welker
Information Technology Librarian
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
JCKL 2260
660.543.8022
