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Are you attempting to install the mysql gem and you are receiving this error? Fetching: mysql-2.8.1.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing mysql: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no checking for main() in -lm… yes checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… … Read more
Have you tried doing yum install ruby in CentOS 5.5? If you have the default repositories configured, you will notice that it installs the ancient Ruby 1.8.5. Not ready to move up to Ruby 1.9, but would like to install Ruby 1.8.7 – well here is how to do it! Install Ruby 1.8.7 on CentOS … Read more
Are you attempting to install the sqlite3-ruby gem and you are receiving this error? Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing sqlite3-ruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb extconf.rb:3:in `require’: no such file to load — mkmf (LoadError) from extconf.rb:3 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-1.3.3 for … Read more
RubyGems is a package management application for Ruby that is used to quickly and easily distribute Ruby/Rails applications and libraries. If you are planning on doing any development in Ruby, this is a must have. RubyGems is for Ruby as apt-get and yum are to Linux operating systems. This article will show you various ways … Read more
Welcome to Part II of how to SSH to a server using Ruby. In Part I of this article, we gave you a simple example of how to SSH to a server and run a command. The hostname, username, password, and the command to execute were hardcoded in the example. In this article, we will … Read more
Welcome to Part I of how to SSH to a Linux, Windows, etc. server using Ruby. This post will give you a complete code example to get you up and running right away! The code below will connect to the server specific and run the ls -al command. Be sure to change the values in … Read more