therubyracer - Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension

Question

I\'m trying to install the following gem versions on Mavericks

• libv8 (3.16.14.3)
• therubyracer (0.12.1)

Obviously therubyracer gems depe

Answer 1

For all of you out there using macOS 10.15, brew has has changed so you will need to do these commands.

brew install v8@3.15
gem install libv8 -v 'YOUR_VERSION' -- --with-system-v8
gem install therubyracer -v 'YOUR_VERSION' -- --with-v8-dir=/usr/local/opt/v8@3.15
bundle install