[Rails] Re: Installing Ferret

Mamadou Touré wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to install the ferret gem (in my windows 7), I got this :
>
>
> gem install ferret -v 0.11.6 --source http://gems.rubyforge.org/
> Building native extensions. This could take a while...
> ERROR: Error installing ferret:
> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> C:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
> creating Makefile
>
> make
> 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> Could someone help me please ?

Simple. You need make in order to compile the native extensions. Make
is a standard *nix tool, but I'm not sure about Windows versions of it
(search the Web...). If you must use Windows for Rails development
(which I do not recommend), you may want to install Cygwin.

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