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Troubleshooting Rails Installation Errors

This document describes the challenges faced by a developer trying to install the Ruby on Rails framework on their local machine. They encounter errors related to missing build tools like make and zlib. After searching online help forums and installing the missing dependencies, they are still unable to successfully complete the gem installation due to issues with the nokogiri native extension.

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Troubleshooting Rails Installation Errors

This document describes the challenges faced by a developer trying to install the Ruby on Rails framework on their local machine. They encounter errors related to missing build tools like make and zlib. After searching online help forums and installing the missing dependencies, they are still unable to successfully complete the gem installation due to issues with the nokogiri native extension.

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  • Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
  • Importance of Infrastructure as Code
  • Journey of Installation

INFRASTRUCTURE

as CODE

Running Microservices on AWS with


Docker, Terraform, and ECS
Why infrastructure-as-code
matters: a short story.
You are starting a
new project
I know, I’ll use Ruby on Rails!
> gem install rails
> gem install rails
Fetching: [Link] (100%)
Fetching: [Link] (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 [Link]
creating Makefile

make
sh: 1: make: not found
Ah, I just need to install make
> sudo apt-get install make
...
Success!
> gem install rails
> gem install rails
Fetching: [Link] (100%)
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 [Link]
checking if the C compiler accepts ... yes
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
Using mini_portile version 2.0.0.rc2
checking for gzdopen() in -lz... no
zlib is missing; necessary for building libxml2
*** [Link] failed ***
Hmm. Time to visit StackOverflow.
> sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
...
Success!
> gem install rails
> gem install rails
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 [Link]
checking if the C compiler accepts ... yes
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
Using mini_portile version 2.0.0.rc2
checking for gzdopen() in -lz... yes
checking for iconv... yes

Extracting [Link] into tmp/x86_64-pc-linux-


gnu/ports/libxml2/2.9.2... OK
*** [Link] failed ***
nokogiri y u never install correctly?

INFRASTRUCTURE asCODE Running Microservices on AWS with Docker, Terraform, and ECS
Why infrastructure-as-code matters: a short story.
You are starting a new project
I know, I’ll use Ruby on Rails!
> gem install rails
> gem install rails Fetching: i18n-0.7.0.gem (100%) Fetching: json-1.8.3.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could t
Ah, I just need to install make
> sudo apt-get install make ... Success!
> gem install rails
> gem install rails Fetching: nokogiri-1.6.7.2.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Err

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