gem install sqlite3-ruby still not working

rubyonrails-talk
1

Dear all,

I am trying to install ruby on rails…but the sqlite3-ruby part has been the trouble giver. I read almost every trouble shoot given in various forums in internet but nothing worked?

I am attaching the output of the command here too. Please help me.

sudo gem install sqlite-ruby-2.2.3.gem

Building native extensions. This could take a while…

ERROR: Error installing sqlite-ruby-2.2.3.gem:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb

checking for main() in -lsqlite… no

checking for sqlite.h… no

*** extconf.rb failed ***

Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of

necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more

details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:

–with-opt-dir

–without-opt-dir

–with-opt-include

–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include

–with-opt-lib

–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib

–with-make-prog

–without-make-prog

–srcdir=.

–curdir

–ruby=/usr/local/bin/ruby

–with-sqlite-dir

–without-sqlite-dir

–with-sqlite-include

–without-sqlite-include=${sqlite-dir}/include

–with-sqlite-lib

–without-sqlite-lib=${sqlite-dir}/lib

–with-sqlitelib

–without-sqlitelib

Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite-ruby-2.2.3 for inspection.

Results logged to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite-ruby-2.2.3/ext/gem_make.out

2

What did you try? Have you also tried installing the sqlite3 header files?

Peter

3

Which operating system are you using and which version of rails?

Colin

4

I am using ubuntu 10.04.

$ ruby -v

ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-linux]

$rails -v

Rails 2.2.3

These are the additional header files I installed already

$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev

I am behind a bad proxy, so i downloaded all gem files and installed locally. This sqlite-ruby-2.2.3.gem also, I downloaded and am trying to install locally.

Thanks,

5

I don't know whether it may be the problem but have you also installed sqlite3? sudo apt-get install sqlite3

Otherwise you could use apt-file search to find which package should supply sqlite.h

Colin

6

I already have it.

$ sudo apt-get install sqlite3

Reading package lists… Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

sqlite3 is already the newest version.

Otherwise you could use apt-file search to find which package should

supply sqlite.h

How do I do this? ( I am newbie to ubuntu…please bare with me)

7

I am using ubuntu 10.04.

$ ruby -v

ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-linux]

$rails -v

Rails 2.2.3

These are the additional header files I installed already

$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev

I am behind a bad proxy, so i downloaded all gem files and installed

locally. This sqlite-ruby-2.2.3.gem also, I downloaded and am trying to

install locally.

I don’t know whether it may be the problem but have you also installed sqlite3?

sudo apt-get install sqlite3

Otherwise you could use apt-file search to find which package should

supply sqlite.h

Strange …

On my system (Ubuntu 11.10 here), everything points to sqlite3 (THREE that is) .

So, I get sqlite3.h (THREE) from here:

~/b$ dpkg -L libsqlite3-dev

/. /usr /usr/include /usr/include/sqlite3.h /usr/include/sqlite3ext.h

But, the OP seems to require sqlite.h (without 3)

checking for sqlite.h… no

and that is indeed found in a different package:

$ apt-file search sqlite.h … libsqlite0-dev: /usr/include/sqlite.

that was not mentioned in the apt-get install list of the OP.

So, why is the OP trying to install a version of sqlite that

seems to be older than sqlite3 ??

@Libber could you please post the Gemfile and Gemfile.lock (if available) from the root directory of your Rails project.

Why are you caring for the ‘sqlite-ruby’ gem ? Why not simply

gem ‘sqlite3’

in your Gemfile that seems to bring little trouble to users on Ubuntu 10.04 (I have used it there for many cases and never had trouble with it).

Hope This Helps (not entirely sure, actually …)

Peter

8

@ Peter,

In my rails project directory, where should I search for gemfile, gemfile.lock? can you explain ?

while Installing RoR, I have to sqlite3, and then link this to RoR using sqlite3-ruby. So, The first step is fine…second gives me this error!.

Is there any way I can use some other database software other than sqlite3 and get rid of the error( and hope to get no more errors)

9

I think the problem may be that you are trying to install sqlite-ruby instead of sqlite3-ruby

Colin

10

@ Peter, In my rails project directory, where should I search for gemfile, gemfile.lock? can you explain ?

Sorry, I had not seen you are using the older Rails version 2.2.3 … There is no Gemfile and Gemfile.lock

there by default.

while Installing RoR, I have to sqlite3, and then link this to RoR using sqlite3-ruby. So, The first step is fine…second gives me this error!.

Is there any way I can use some other database software other than sqlite3 and get rid of the error( and hope to get no more errors)

You could use

gem ‘mysql2’, ‘~>0.3.10’ # Ubuntu : libmysql-ruby1.9.1 libmysqlclient-dev

gem ‘pg’ # Ubuntu : libpq-dev

but those will have other set-up issue that you need to handle.

Peter

11

@collin:

Wonderful, I was literally crying for the past 20 days in trying to install this sqlite3-ruby. The whole mistake is I should have used “sqlite3-ruby” instead of “sqlite-ruby”. Thank you very much.

Thanks a lot once again…

It is working …yureka…:slight_smile:

12

Thanks should go to Peter Vandenabeele also, it was his pointing out that sqlite.h should not be used by sqlite3 that made me notice your error.

Colin

13

Sorry for that…

A special thanks to Peter Vandenabeele also.

"Long live open source communities "

14

No prob, you’re welcome :slight_smile:

Still, is this a new application you are starting (since you are now setting up the first database connection)?

Why not use the easy default Rails 3 set-up. Setting it up on

Ubuntu 10.xy, 11.xy is a breeze [0].

You will have more trouble getting support on this list for a 2.2.x application than a 3.x application. Also, I a doubt if security updates are still supported for 2.2.x Rails apps …

HTH,

Peter

[0] one of the many tutorials for Ruby on Linux (I wrote it) http://rails.vandenabeele.com/blog/2011/11/26/installing-ruby-and-rails-with-rvm-on-ubuntu-11-dot-10/

15

For some reason, curl does not work when we are behind a proxy. I actually started my project with the same link you gave. After two days without result, I switched to the present way…

16

For some reason, curl does not work when we are behind a proxy.

Do you mean the curl to download rvm ?

I assume you know that there are ways on Linux to set proxy settings system wide (I don’t know much detail, but that problem should be possible to resolve).

Specifically for rvm, this page could be relevant:

http://beginrescueend.com/workflow/proxy/ “Installing RVM behind a proxy”

I actually started my project with the same link you gave. After two days without result, I switched to the present way…

Maybe I misunderstood your problem. Could you explain a little more detail please. If needed, I can improve the text to discuss this problem and the solution.

And … even without rvm, why not use Rails 3.1 ? Why is the proxy not a problem

for Rails 2.2.x and it is a problem for Rails 3.1?

Sorry for all the questions, but I am curious what is the real problem.

Peter

17

@Peter,

Thanks for those links. The whole problem with proxy was that my password contains special characters(it is must to have atleast one special character), Now I figured out a way to change the password and without a special character. This worked and in the next computer I am running rvm with ease… and rails >3.x…

Thanks