From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T05:26:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32ole equivalent for Mac OS X

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Nathan Loyer <4namlet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Glen Holcomb wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Nathan Loyer <4namlet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/02/27/replacing-applescript-with-ruby.html?page=2
>>
>> --
>> "Hey brother Christian with your high and mighty errand, Your actions
>> speak
>> so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."
>>
>> -Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
>
> Thanks, but for some reason, I can't install rb-appscript.  I get this
> error:
>
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  Error installing rb-appscript:
>  ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
> extconf.rb install rb-appscript
> can't find header files for ruby.
>
>
> Gem files will remain installed in
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rb-appscript-0.5.1 for inspection.
> Results logged to
> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rb-appscript-0.5.1/gem_make.out
> roboticbuddha:documents User$ ruby mergeAMdata.rb
> /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
> `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- appscript (LoadError)
>  from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
>  from mergeAMdata.rb:7
> --

Did you install the Xcode package? Ruby's header files, as well as the
compiler, are not bundled with the default Mac OS X install.

Laurent