Ruby on Rails

Download and unzip the current devkit into your ruby directory. It
contains all necessary MinGW-tools for compiling native extensions.

-Markus

2010/7/3 Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists@ruby-forum.com>:
> Mamadou Touré wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I try to install the ferret gem (in my windows 7), I got this :
>>
>>
>> gem install ferret -v 0.11.6 --source http://gems.rubyforge.org/
>> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>> ERROR:  Error installing ferret:
>>   ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>>
>> C:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
>> creating Makefile
>>
>> make
>> 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>>
>> Could someone help me please ?
>
> Simple.  You need make in order to compile the native extensions.  Make
> is a standard *nix tool, but I'm not sure about Windows versions of it
> (search the Web...).  If you must use Windows for Rails development
> (which I do not recommend), you may want to install Cygwin.
>
>
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