I\'m trying to do file uploads with ruby 1.8 and it seems like there are no good out-of-the-box solutions. They all seem to need some 3rd party patch or fork of a project to
When you say you passed configuration options to extconf.rb, did you mean in the gem install command?
If not, I believe it would be something along the lines of
gem install curb -- --with-curl-dir=dir
It might be a different config option, but the -- is that bit you need to pass it configure options.