From: Henry Maddocks <henryj@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T05:51:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Header Files in Mac OS X


On 24/05/2007, at 8:19 AM, Ari Brown wrote:

> [Snow-iMac:~/Desktop/Programming/rubyforger] ari% ruby extconf.rb
> can't find header files for ruby.
>
> Am I the only one having this issue? I have found ruby.h (assuming  
> that's the file it's looking for), and it's in the normal  
> directory. I have had this issue every time I try to install a new  
> Ruby library.
>
> I suppose ruby.h is not the file it's looking for?

Have you set up your paths correctly?

$ whereis ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/ 
bin:/usr/sbin


The path to ruby should be in your $PATH