bundle install / update: libv8 (therubyracer) installation fails (with native extensions)

Question

I recently wanted to update my gem bundle but ran into installation problems with libv8 (requirement for therubyracer):

Installing libv8 (3.3.10.3) with native ext         


        

Answer 1

Ubuntu 11.04

gem "therubyracer", '0.11.1'
gem 'libv8'

1. Uninstall therubyracer and libv8 gem

2. Update the bundler gem version

3. Install lib8-dev package

   sudo apt-get install libv8-dev

4. Then run this

   sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion imagemagick graphicsmagick libmagickcore-dev libmagickwand-dev

5. Now install therubyracer manually

   gem install therubyracer

6. It will install therubyracer and libv8 for you.

7. Now run bundle install

All above steps solved my problem :)