issues with rails on EC2 when calling 'build install' - ruby-on-rails

Question

Just finished spinning an instance of EC2 on amazon and installed rails and ruby. When I tried to call bundle install however, I am getting the following error:
Installing sqlite3 (1.3.3) with native extensions /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/installer.rb:551:in `build_extensions': ERROR: Failed to bui ld gem native extension. (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for sqlite3.h... no
sqlite3.h is missing. Try 'port install sqlite3 +universal'
or 'yum install sqlite3-devel' and check your shared library search path (the
location where your sqlite3 shared library is located).
*** 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.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/bin/ruby
--with-sqlite3-dir
--without-sqlite3-dir
--with-sqlite3-include
--without-sqlite3-include=${sqlite3-dir}/include
--with-sqlite3-lib
--without-sqlite3-lib=${sqlite3-dir}/lib
yes I have run 'yum install sqlite3-devel'.

Answer 1

Maybe also try:
yum install sqlite3
yum install ruby-devel

Answer 2

I had the same issue. Thanks to this forum entry, I figured it out: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=22116
You've got to:
sudo yum install make
sudo yum install gcc
Surprisingly, they are not standard in AWS AMI. I was on a wild goose chase, trying to solve the problem by making sqlite3.h available, but it was a more basic problem all along. Both make and gcc were missing. Hope that also helps your case.