gem install cannot find a header file

Question

Following along the github README for talib_ruby:

sudo port install ta-lib

Complete. Next is where the trouble begins.

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Answer 1

Observe

sudo echo $ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_TALIB_HEADERS

echo ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_TALIB_HEADERS

have included in **my** .bash_profile file the following:

sudo

Are you root?

put the env vars on the command line and you should be good, alternatively add them to root's env.