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Ruby Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing a Ruby Development Environment Installing Ruby on Mac

David Langley
David Langley
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Posted by David Langley
David Langley
10,965 Points

Ruby install failed

Followed the instructions on the video but my install failed. Any ideas ??

BUILD FAILED

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/c2/5hf56cjs1pz292d_zdtc13rc0000gn/T/ruby-build.20140226223134.5503 Results logged to /var/folders/c2/5hf56cjs1pz292d_zdtc13rc0000gn/T/ruby-build.20140226223134.5503.log

Last 10 log lines: In file included from stubs.c:16: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/tk.h:78:11: fatal error: 'X11/Xlib.h' file not found

include <X11/Xlib.h>

            ^

1 error generated. make[2]: *** [stubs.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [ext/tk/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... linking shared-object ripper.bundle make: *** [build-ext] Error 2

hope you can help.....

David Langley
David Langley
10,965 Points
David Langley
David Langley
10,965 Points

sorry should have mentioned i'm on a MacBook Pro.

1 Answer

David O' Rojo
David O' Rojo
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David O' Rojo
David O' Rojo
11,051 Points

Try this:

Open your terminal and execute

xcode-select --install