Rails 4: Error when installing tiny_tds gem? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have developed a rails web project with Ruby v2 and Rails v4. It was perfectly working in my current system and when i tried to run this project in another Linux machine (Ubuntu 12.4 ) i am getting a Tidy_tds error .
This error is showing at the time of bundle install ,
Error Details below
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/home/action/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for iconv_open() in iconv.h... yes
checking for sybfront.h... no
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freetds is missing.
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.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/home/action/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby
--enable-lookup
--disable-lookup
--with-iconv-dir
--without-iconv-dir
--with-iconv-include
--without-iconv-include=${iconv-dir}/include
--with-iconv-lib
--without-iconv-lib=${iconv-dir}/lib
--with-freetds-dir
--without-freetds-dir
--with-freetds-include
--without-freetds-include=${freetds-dir}/include
--with-freetds-lib
--without-freetds-lib=${freetds-dir}/lib
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /home/action/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/tiny_tds-0.6.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/action/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.1.0/tiny_tds-0.6.1/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing tiny_tds (0.6.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install tiny_tds -v '0.6.1'` succeeds before bundling.
I have also tried installing tiny_tds seperatly, but still i am getting the same issue
gem install tiny_tds -v '0.6.1'
My gem file,
source 'https://rubygems.org'
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'rails', '4.0.2'
# Use SCSS for stylesheets
gem 'sass-rails', '~> 4.0.0'
gem 'tiny_tds'
# Use Uglifier as compressor for JavaScript assets
gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.3.0'
# Use CoffeeScript for .js.coffee assets and views
gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 4.0.0'
# See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
# gem 'therubyracer', platforms: :ruby
# Use jquery as the JavaScript library
gem 'jquery-rails'
# Turbolinks makes following links in your web application faster. Read more: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks
gem 'turbolinks'
gem 'jquery-ui-rails' # jquery ui
# Build JSON APIs with ease. Read more: https://github.com/rails/jbuilder
gem 'jbuilder', '~> 1.2'
group :doc do
# bundle exec rake doc:rails generates the API under doc/api.
gem 'sdoc', require: false
end
# Use sqlserver as the database for Active Record
gem 'activerecord-sqlserver-adapter', :git => 'https://github.com/nextgearcapital/activerecord-sqlserver-adapter.git'
gem "therubyracer"
gem "less-rails"
gem "twitter-bootstrap-rails"
gem 'bootstrap-datepicker-rails'
gem 'will_paginate'
gem 'sqlite3'
gem 'formtastic'
Why is this error appearing and how to solve this issue.
Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

Looks like you don't have freetds installed on this machine:
sudo apt-get install freetds-dev
If you see the details of the freetds-dev package you will see it has the missing file sybfront.h
There is no gem that I know for freetds and building the tiny_tds gem requires it to compile. However it should be possible for you build your own version of the gem using MiniPortile.
Rather than using the normal gem install mechanism you need to clone the tiny_tds from GitHub and then build a native gem for your environment. This process will include downloading a specific version of freetds which is used to compile the gem against.
This should get you round the problem of not being able to install freetds-dev package, but does have the disadvantage that if tiny_tds gem is updated in the future you will need to repeat this process each time - you can't simply take advantage of bundle update.
The steps you need to follow are detailed here.

Answer 2

For MacOS you need additional lib installed.
brew install freetds

Answer 3

This worked for me in Ubuntu 17.04
Install wget to download packages from remote URL
$ sudo apt-get install wget
Install dependencies
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
Download remote file
$ wget ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/stable/freetds-1.00.21.tar.gz
Unzip
$ tar -xzf freetds-1.00.21.tar.gz
Configure and Run Test for the package in your system
$ cd freetds-1.00.21
$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-tdsver=7.3
$ sudo make
Now, Install
$ sudo make install
Now install the gem
$ gem install tiny_tds -v '2.0.0'
If still, you cannot install the gem tiny_tds then try using sudo
$ sudo gem install tiny_tds -v '2.0.0'
Output
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed tiny_tds-2.0.0
Parsing documentation for tiny_tds-2.0.0
Installing ri documentation for tiny_tds-2.0.0
Done installing documentation for tiny_tds after 1 seconds
1 gem installed