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Jeremy Conley
Jeremy Conley
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Jeremy Conley
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Gem install rails failure

gem install rails fails everytime i try. It says "ERROR: failed to build gem native extension" Please helppppppppp

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William Li
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William Li
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William Li
William Li
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Jeremy, please check out this new workshop Installing a Ruby on Rails Development Environment in OS X, it was released yesterday, and it has the updated instruction on how to get Rails up and running in OS X.