error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1) - ruby-on-rails

When I run a bundle on a rails project I seem to be getting the following:
Installing pg 0.17.1 with native extensions
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby -r
./siteconf20151024-43303-t81fnp.rb extconf.rb checking for
pg_config... yes Using config values from /usr/local/bin/pg_config An
error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot
continue. Make sure that gem install pg -v '0.17.1' succeeds before
bundling.
I have visited the following SO questions:
An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue
Installing pg -v 0.17.1
Installing PG gem on OS X - failure to build native extension.
Additionally to this I've tried executing the following:
gem install pg
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.4.5/bin/pg_config
And I keep getting:
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory.
FYI I have rbenv installed too. Also tried a rbenv rehash also and executed the above commands and have had no luck. I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling Postgres and get the same. To also be on the safe side i've also ran:
brew update
brew uinstall posgresql > brew install postgresql
updated Xcode
Info:
Mac OSx Yosemite 10.10.5
Postgres v9.4.5
rbenv v0.4.0
rbenv global => 2.0.0-p247

I don't know Mac, but I've had this problem on Windows.
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The issue is here:
Failed to build gem native extension
When you install a gem, many of the advanced ones actually compile / "build" through the extconf.rb file. I've forgotten the significance of this, but it basically allows the gem to run natively on the OS environment you're using.
In short, the error occurs because your OS does not have access to the "developer headers" the gem requires to compile.
The most common instance of this problem is with the mysql2 gem on Windows, but happens for others too.
--
What you need is to download PGSQL on your system before attempting to install the gem.
After installing PGSQL, you may need to reference the developer headers with some "switches", but it does not appear to be the case in this instance:
Installing PG gem on OS X - failure to build native extension
Install Xcode command line tools (Apple Developer site)
brew uninstall postgresql
brew install postgresql
ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
Maybe this won't work? I don't know... I know that in Windows, you have to install the binaries before expecting the gem to work.

Greetings I hope I can help. May I ask how you created your rails project? Did you simply use:
rails new *appname*
If so maybe try creating a new rails app like so:
rails new *appname* -d postgresql
And before you create your database and run migrations/seed, you should go into "config/database.yml" and change the username and password to the postgreSQL user that you've hopefully setup after installing postgreSQL on your machine.
Good Luck!

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trouble installing postgresql for rails app

So I would like to deploy my rails app on heroku right? Wanna switch from sql3 to postgresql. Should be simple but I keep getting an error when trying to bundle with gem 'pg' in my gemfile. I used homebrew to install postgresql with all its native extensions before trying to bundle. Any ideas? I am on Mac OSX high sierra.
An error occurred while installing pg (1.1.3), and Bundler cannot
continue.
Make sure that gem install pg -v '1.1.3' --source 'https://rubygems.org/'
succeeds before bundling.
That's all I get for the error. Not helpful. I went ahead and uninstalled postrgresql that I installed locally to my machine from their website as well as with homebew. Gonna start from scratch. I haven't done this in years so any help would be appreciated!
I've run into this before where you attempt to install the PG gem, but postgres is not yet installed. Even if you install postgres after that, you'll still run into troubles (this has to do with required libraries not being available or not found). I would recommend uninstalling both, then installing Postgres first, then the PG gem. This is a common gotcha, unfortunately: Installing PG gem on OS X - failure to build native extension Also, I would recommend https://postgresapp.com/ if you continue to have trouble installing PG or having the gem not see your install properly.
After tons of research and trying everything, found an older question on stackoverflow from 2014. If you install postgresql with homebrew like I did, running the command ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg will install the gem if bundling or gem install pg don't work. Hope that helps other people who might be stuck like I was

An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue

I just installed Rails 4.0.2 and when creating a new app, in the bundle stage I get:
Installing pg (0.17.1)
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/Users/Dee/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for pg_config... no
No pg_config... trying anyway. If building fails, please try again with
--with-pg-config=/path/to/pg_config
checking for libpq-fe.h... no
Can't find the 'libpq-fe.h header
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may
need configuration options.
How do I fix this?
Some kind of error resported here Installing PG gem on OS X - failure to build native extension
To install dependencies on Ubuntu try this:
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
and this
gem install pg
I'm on a Mac running Mavericks. My solution was to install Postgres.
And then in terminal install using homebrew with the configuration:
gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin/pg_config
Note: This answer has been edited to use the latest symlink that is currently included in shipping versions of the Postgres app.
Previous versions suggested:
gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin/pg_config
app root:
brew update
brew install postgres
gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.4/bin/pg_config
bundle install
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
createuser -s -r postgres
rake db:create:all
rake db:migrate
rails s
NOTE: replace the version number in step 3 if needed.
Previously working answer with older version
I installed under mac OSX Mavericks, having the postgres app (Version 9.2.2.0 ) from www.postgresapp.com installed. The underlying problem was simpy that the since postgres was installed via the app, the configuration file resides on a location which is not the default one when installing it without postgressapp. so we need to tell gem where to find this file by:
gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/pg_config
Hope it helps
If gem install pg fails, try the following command:
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/pg_config
... from the PostgreSQL.app Documentation
Looks like you do not have PostgreSQL installed. The pg gem requires some headers from PostgreSQL to compile native extension.
I had to combine everything and use
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin/pg_config
If you are using something other than Postgres in development and Postgres in production only, you can add the pg gem to your gemfile like so...
group :production do
gem 'pg', '0.17.1'
end
Then use bundle install --without production
For CentOS users:
sudo yum install postgresql-devel
and
gem install pg
I have just set up a new Macbook Pro which was prebuilt with Catalina.
What worked for me:
Install the Postgres from here: https://postgresapp.com/
Add export PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin:$PATH"to your .zshenv, since Z shell is now the default terminal.
On mac this command worked for me.
gem install pg -v '0.18.4' -- --with-cflags="-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration"
After installing Postgres I had to run the following command
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config
After this bundle install works great!
Hope it helps
The way I managed to get past that error was:
cd to app folder and then set the ruby version locally. I'm using ruby 2.1.2.
rbenv local 2.1.2
instead of just running bundle install, install the gems in vendor/bundle
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
This did it for me.
I needed to use sudo
sudo gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.5/bin/pg_config
I was having a problem with Amazon and couldn't use apt-get.
For my worked:
sudo yum install postgresql-devel
then:
bundle install
and try again:
rails serve
If you installed through Homebrew; gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/usr/local/bin/pg_config. Works with Ruby 2.4.6 and pg 0.20.0.
It works for me
rvm list gemsets
rvm use ruby-2.4.1
bundle
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Rails: Installing PG gem on OS X - failure to build native extension

It seems many others have had problems installing the pg gem. None of the solutions posed for others have worked for me.
I have tried to install the pg gem and postgres.app. The pg gem won't install. The first error I get is:
An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.0), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that gem install pg -v '0.17.0' succeeds before bundling.
The installation advice about pointing my gem install to the config for pg fails with the following error message (which many others on this forum have encountered):
Failed to build native extensions... Results logged to /Users/melanie/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/pg-0.17.0/ext/gem_make.out
I don't know how to find or access this log file to search for further clues.
I also get an error message (command not found) when I try using the sudo apt-get install command. I've scoured this forum for the last 6 hours, trying each piece of advice to get pg working with my rails project.
I can't find advice about how to change a path, or specifically, what change is required. My which pg_config returns a file source. I've used that with a command to install pg using that config. It fails.
There are so many people that have had trouble with this. Many answers suggest homebrew. I've had to remove that because it threw up other issues.
Same error for me and I didn't experience it until I downloaded OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Sigh, another OS upgrade headache.
Here's how I fixed it (with homebrew):
Install another build of Xcode Tools (typing brew update in the terminal will prompt you to update the Xcode build tools)
brew update
brew install postgresql
After that gem install pg worked for me.
If you are using Ubuntu try to install following lib file
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
and then
gem install pg
worked for me.
I am using OS X Mavericks (version 10.9)
and when I run the above I got the following message: If builds of PostgreSQL 9 are failing and you have version 8.x installed.
So I run the following command:
ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
and this worked for me, I hope this helps someone :)
Ok I also had this problem (psql is v 9.3.0 and ruby is v 2.1.2) and the solution that worked for me was setting the bundle config settings first:
bundle config build.pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config
This answer finally helped me figure it out: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9235107/3546680
I tried everything for hours but the following finally fixed it (I'm on OS X 10.9.4):
Install Xcode command line tools (Apple Developer site)
brew uninstall postgresql
brew install postgresql
ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
easy step
brew install postgresql
gem install pg -v 'your version'
Similarly, after installing Mavericks bundle update was throwing an error on the pg gem, which is only used on production and not locally.
I use Brew to manage my packages and postgresql was already installed, but still I was getting the 'no pg_config' error.
The fix was to just brew uninstall postgresql, then brew install postgresql. After which I was immediately able to successfully run bundle update.
I believe the “correct” answer would be to first configure PATH correctly for Postgres.app by adding the following to ~/.profile (.zshrc or ~/.zprofile if using ZSH):
export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin
Then open a new tab or window in terminal and install the pg gem with:
ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
Documented here:
https://postgresapp.com/documentation/cli-tools.html
https://postgresapp.com/documentation/configuration-ruby.html
On OSX with Postgres installed in /Applications, I simply run the following command (change 0.20 & 9.4 according to your version)
gem install pg -v '0.20' -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin/pg_config
You should have :
Building native extensions with:
'--with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin/pg_config'
This could take a while... Successfully installed pg-0.20.
running brew update and then brew install postgresql worked for me, I was able to run the pg gem file no problem after that.
I spent a day on this and here's how I got it fixed:
I found that global value of build.pg was set to: /opt/local/lib/postgresql91/bin/pg_config
and that was not where postgres was installed.
I fixed it with replacing the value of build.pg to:
bundle config build.pg --with-pg-config=/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.4.4/bin/pg_config
which is where my postgresql installation is.
Try:
gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=`which pg_config`
Solved!
I found some lack of library for PostgreSQL on the system.
Only two steps solved it:
brew install postgresql
Then run
gem install pg
For those who are not interested to use brew.
Download PostgreSQL application.
Follow the macOS default instruction to install it.
It is advisable to run PostgreSQl.
Run gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/path/to/postgress/in/your/applications/folder/`
For example, in my machine it is
/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/12/bin/pg_config
i got same problem and i solved
gem update --system 3.0.6

libv8 (3.11.8.17) bundle install error on Mac

I upgraded ruby to 1.9.3, and now I can't get my server to start. When I run bundle install, it says
An error occurred while installing libv8 (3.11.8.17), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install libv8 -v '3.11.8.17'` succeeds before bundling.
When I try to install that gem, it says
ERROR: Error installing libv8:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/Users/Erica/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby extconf.rb
creating Makefile
Compiling v8 for x64
Using python 2.7.1
Unable to find a compiler officially supported by v8.
It is recommended to use GCC v4.4 or higher
Using compiler: g++
Unable to find a compiler officially supported by v8.
It is recommended to use GCC v4.4 or higher
I'm an HTML/CSS coder, not really a Ruby developer, so any thoughts are really appreciated.
I resolved this issue by using the following command:
gem install libv8 -v 3.11.8.17 -- --with-system-v8
It works with RVM on Mavericks.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19667419/763744
Try reinstalling v8 in homebrew:
gem uninstall libv8
brew install v8
gem install libv8
Do:
gem install rmagick -v '2.13.2'
gem install libv8 -v 3.11.8.17 -- --with-system-v8
I encountered this problem a few times already, first thing I'd try is to (re)install command line tools. Normally should work.
Another attempt that succeeded once was uninstalling libv8, and then installing it again. It takes ages...
This simple solution worked for me:
$ gem uninstall libv8 # select "All Versions" if prompted
$ gem install libv8
I had this same problem when I upgraded from OSX Mountain Lion to OSX Mavericks.
Upgrading from ruby-1.8.7-p354 to ruby-1.8.7-375 did the trick for me.
libv8 (3.16.14.3-x86_64-darwin-13) and the therubyracer (0.12.0) gems installed without problem.
assuming you use rbenv:
rbenv versions
system
* 1.8.7-p354
2.0.0-rc2
rbenv uninstall 1.8.7-p354
rbenv install 1.8.7-p375
rbenv versions
system
* 1.8.7-p375
2.0.0-rc2
bundle install

Installe RMagick gem locally but unable to do the same using bundle install [windows 7(32 bit)]

I was able to install the rmagick-2.6.0-x86-mswin32.gem gem in my windows 7 machine using gem install command and I got the following success messages:
D:\dev>gem install rmagick-2.6.0
Successfully installed rmagick-2.6.0-x86-mswin32
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rmagick-2.6.0-x86-mswin32...
Installing RDoc documentation for rmagick-2.6.0-x86-mswin32...
But when I try to install using bundle install (with the same version mentioned in the Gemfile) it throws the following error messages:
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension
. D:/Ruby187/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.2... yes
checking for gcc... yes
checking for Magick-config... no
Can't install RMagick 2.6.0. Can't find Magick-config in D:\Ruby187\bin;D:\Ruby1
....
I already have ImageMagick installed and its paths included in the env vars, but the paths mentioned in the error message above seem to be different somehow(?!)
When i type rails -v now, I get the following message:
D:\dev>rails -v
←[31mCould not find gem 'rmagick (= 2.6.0) x86-mingw32' in the gems available on
this machine.←[0m
←[33mRun `bundle install` to install missing gems.←[0m
Do i need to make any other changes/ setups to install this gem with my gemfile using bundle install?
Also I actually need an earlier gem '2.5.2' but the win32 specific version of that gem does not seem to available, is there any way to get it?
I need to do this development on windows for the moment so I can switch to any other OS for the moment. Also since this is a legacy app I am working on, I will need to stick with rmagick and can't switch to any other solution.
Env info:
Ruby: 1.8.7
Rails:
Please help!
Many thanks.
Hey have you tried installing Devkit, for installing gems with native extensions on windows.
Try the steps in the following link, and check whether the Devkit has been installed in your path variable, try opening a new command shell and install the gems.
http://doelsengupta.blogspot.in/2010/10/unable-to-download-gem-with-native.html
all the best!!
I kept having this problem but was finally able to get around it using the following solution from #Martin Cohen - after modifying the gemspec file as he has suggested and rebuilding it, i was able to successfully install rmagick gem using bundle install...
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5595274/1865578
cheers!

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