Error when installing Ruby on Rails: “Failed to build gem native extension”

Question

I'm running Crunchbang 11 (Debian-based).

I'm trying to install Ruby on Rails, like this:

gem install rails --version 4.0.0

I get the error "Failed to build gem native extension".

My ruby is version 2.0.0p247 , my RubyGems is 2.0.0 .

What's the issue here?

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This is the full error output:

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

    /home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby extconf.rb
creating Makefile

make
compiling atomic_reference.c
linking shared-object atomic_reference.so

make install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 0755 atomic_reference.so /home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10/lib/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-linux
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10/lib/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-linux': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-so] Error 1


Gem files will remain installed in /home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/atomic-1.1.10/ext/gem_make.out

My env :

ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/tmp/orbit-erlkoenig
SSH_AGENT_PID=2695
rvm_bin_path=/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/bin
GEM_HOME=/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247
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TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=9e0343c07c890bd2d60ee6a750f36c6c-1373892339.852749-193038580
IRBRC=/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/.irbrc
WINDOWID=39845892
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/erlkoenig/.cache/keyring-g6PRS5
MY_RUBY_HOME=/home/erlkoenig/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247
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rvm_path=/home/erlkoenig/.rvm
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Answer 1

Rails 4.0 需要 RubyGem 2.0.3 版，只需使用以下命令更新您的系统

gem update --system 2.0.3

Answer 2

Run the following command:

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev zlib1g-dev liblzma-dev

Then,

sudo gem install rails

Answer 3

Just a follow up ... on different solution...

it may be that you are on a mac and rails cannot find the right compiler for c headers.

just install xcode from apps store / homebrew or go to terminal ...

$ xcode-select --install

complete the installation and agree on the licensing etc, then ...

$ sudo gem install rails

Answer 4

在windows7上使用命令“gem install rails -v 5.1.2”安装rails时遇到同样的问题，在安装“MSYS2和MINGW开发工具链”后解决（命令ridk install然后选项3）。花了一段时间才完成安装然后我安装了导轨没有任何问题

Answer 5

Try

sudo gem install rails --version 2.0

to install libraries.

Answer 6

For anyone got the error:"Failed to build gem native extension”, while running sudo gem install rails , and it said somethings about "nokogiri".

It is possible because you are using the same ruby version as system is using (for mac user). The solution would be install RVM, use RVM to install another ruby version.

So now you have 2 Ruby versions on your machine, RVM will automatically switch to the newly installed version. now, you can run gem install rails without error and without sudo as well.

Answer 7

i'm running elementary os 5 and what i do is.

sudo gem update --system

and then try again.

sudo gem install rails

Answer 8

On Fedora 30, I ran into this problem "Failed to build gem native extension". The log error was "gcc: fatal error: cannot read spec file '/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1': No such file or directory". The solution was found here .

If you installed all the above, but the extensions would still not compile, you are probably running a Fedora image that misses redhat-rpm-config package. In that case gcc compiler would complain about one of the following:

gcc: error: conftest.c: No such file or directory
gcc: error: /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1: No such file or directory
To solve this, simply run sudo dnf install redhat-rpm-config.

Answer 9

对我来说这有帮助：

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

Answer 10

我在安装 rails 时遇到了同样的错误，但我通过运行以下命令解决了它： gem install rails而不添加sudo 。

Answer 11

I found this article for installation and I think it might solve your problem. Click Here

Answer 12

I could solve this way

rvm use ruby --install --default

and then try again.

gem install rails --no-document