From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-07-13T00:21:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem install sqlite3-ruby

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:24:39PM +0900, Joshua Wehner wrote:
> I'm trying to set up Rails with sqlite on a raw Debian box. Rails is 
> fine, but I'm having problems with sqlite. Actually, sqlite is fine, but 
> the sqlite3-ruby bindings are problematic. I /suspect/ that this box 
> doesn't have some important development tools (I had to install gcc and 
> make manually), but I don't know what else I'm missing...

Here are some very specific instructions which have proved handy in getting
through this:

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/wiki/BeAlertWhenOnSqlite3

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