ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension on Mavericks

Question

I\'m attempting to run bundle in my Rails project on OSX 10.9. It fails when getting to the pg gem with this error:

Gem::Installer:         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me on Mac OS X 10.9.3 and Postgres.app version 9.3.4.2:

1) Install Postgres.app

2) bundle config build.pg --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config

3) gem install pg -v '0.17.1'

4) bundle install