Thanks again for the quick reply. You are right. This is not the place for this post. My apologies. I will move to the appropriate forum. The funny thing is that I'm running a VM of Windows 2003 on a MAC. I'm really a PHP guy with around 2 weeks (department mandated) of Ruby experience. Thanks again. JohnM
Älphä Blüë wrote: > Hi John, > > You are on windows so you are most likely using nmake not make. > Secondly, you need to have a c-compiler on your system and in your path > in order for nmake to be used. > > But, you should take a step back for a moment. First, this is a Ruby > issue and you are on a rails forum so you aren't going to get much > feedback here. You should probably post something in the "ruby" forum. > > Secondly, you need to list what Ruby version you are using, what windows > version you are using because that does matter. On windows, Ruby > versions are generally now compiled with mingw and if you are using > later platforms like 1.9x then you have to have the mingw compiler as > well which comes with the devkit. > > Ruby is not "windows" friendly. It is far from windows friendly. > Unless you have the correct devkits, the correct compilers, it can > create many issues for you. If you are using the 1.8.6 one-click > installer then you should be 'fairly safe' for the most part from much > of these frustrations. However, it won't exempt you from having issues > with gems that won't compile correctly. > > Generally I do the following in order: > > gem install (gemname) > .. if that fails.. > gem install (gemname) --platform=mswin32 > .. if that fails.. > gem install (gemname) --platform mswin32 --source http://gem_source_url > > You should make sure that you have your gem sources updated for > starters: > > gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only do this once) > > This is the primary source now for retrieving most gems. > > Other than that, compiling gems from binaries are difficult to explain > and again, it would depend on what compiler you are using, what ruby > version you are using, and what windows platform you are using. > > If you are using Ruby 1.9 you can check most gems from > http://isitruby.com and validate whether or not those gems are working > for 1.9. If you are using 1.8 a lot of the gem frustrations can simply > be due to the fact that a lot of authors could care less about making > their gems usable for windows. There's a lot of discussions about gem > building and many authors never follow the same exact standards. > > Let me know if I can help you further with this issue. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
