Hi Team,
I get the following error when i try to install Cucumber gem on my PC.

I have installed Ruby1.8.7. version. I use Windows XP.

C:\Ruby187\bin>gem install cucumber -v 1.2.1
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing cucumber:

    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
    C:/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb

creating Makefile

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

Gem files will remain installed in
C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.7.3
for inspection.
Results logged to
C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/json-1.7.3/ext/json/ext/pars
er/gem_make.out

Please help me.

Thanks in advance,
Sophia

Hi Sophia,

Assuming that your ruby install is from rubyinstaller.org, you will need to
make sure the devkit (compiler toolchain) is installed.

Check your ruby with:
  C:\ruby -v

Mine shows the following, it is the i386-mingw32 that is important
for compatibility with the devkit:
  ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i386-mingw32]

See  http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ and look for the development kit
download.
You can also refer to the wiki page (
https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit ) for a
walkthrough.

Once the devkit is installed and working, try installing cucumber gem again:

James.

On 20 July 2012 08:30, Sophia <sophia.joac...@gmail.com> wrote:

From the error below:

Can you confirm that you installed DevKit? (following the instructions
from the wiki):

https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit

First you need to download it from the RubyInstaller page:
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads

And then extract to a location without spaces. Then execute:

ruby dk.rb init

follow the instructions on the screen and later:

ruby dk.rb install

That should place the DevKit into Ruby in the right locations.

It seems you already had DevKit installed, but you might have
relocated it or removed (I'm not sure about that, we don't know what
you had before)

So you can force installation of the newer DevKit by doing:

ruby dk.rb install --force

After that, please try to install the json gem:

gem install json

Let us know if that works.
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Luis Lavena
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Hi Luis Lavena,

Thanks for your reply. I had installed DevKit in sone other path. I
installed it in Ruby's bin again and it worked!