Ruby Forum Ruby on Rails > Installing sqlite3-ruby with rubygems on Ubuntu 8.0.4.1

Hi everyone,

I'm on Ubuntu Hardy and I just installed

ruby1.8
irb1.8
ri1.8
rdoc1.8
rubygems
ruby1.8-dev

I then intalled rails with rubygems and had to run the gem update
--system command once I wanted to create my first rails project,

I also have to install the sqlite3-ruby gem but each time I try to
here's the error I get :

sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing sqlite3-ruby:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby
checking for fdatasync() in -lrt... yes
checking for sqlite3.h... no

make
make: *** No rule to make target `ruby.h', needed by
`sqlite3_api_wrap.o'.  Stop.


Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4 for inspection.
Results logged to
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_api/gem_make.out


So I'm probably missing some libraries or maybe a environment variable,
could you please help me sort this out, I'd be enlightned

Cheers :)

bigchoco

Ok solved my problem by installing the sqlite3-dev packages sorry for
being impatient

Happy coding :p