Not able to run gem install sqlite3-ruby (help needed)

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when i run gem install sqlite3-ruby i get the following error

C:\>gem install sqlite3-ruby Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32) 1. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.1 (mswin32) 2. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.1 (ruby) 3. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.0 (mswin32) 4. sqlite3-ruby 1.2.0 (ruby) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation

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Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby checking for sqlite3.h... no

nmake 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ sqlite3-ruby-1 .2.1 for inspection. Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.1/ ext/sqlite3_ api/gem_make.out

Can anybody give me a solution

Thanks in Advance Vijay Kumar

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Choose number 1 if you're on windows (mswin32)

Note that if you update your rubygems it does this automatically now gem update --system

Vijay wrote: