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

You have to configure pg with your current version I used mine 9.4 version on Yosemite. Here is the following command

bundle config build.pg --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin/pg_config 

You should use your own version

bundle config build.pg --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/(YOUR POSTGRES VERSION)/bin/pg_config 

then do

bundle install

Answer 2

An error occurred while installing debugger (1.6.5), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install debugger -v '1.6.5'` succeeds before bundling.

I was able to fix this error by rolling back to Ruby v2.0.0. I was running Ruby 2.1.1, which is not supported for this debugger version. Be sure to check your ruby version if you run into this issue as well.

Answer 3

When i try to install

apt-get install libpq-dev

Failed to install, unmet dependencies problem, to solve

apt-get remove libpq5

then install

apt-get install libpq-dev

Finally solved the gem pg issue.

Answer 4

I've just got it running by doing

ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg

after installing posgres using brew

Answer 5

The following worked for me:

gem install pg -v '0.18.1' -- --with-pg config=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/pg_config