Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· mpatrick

Solve install problem when using PostgresApp Mac OS X

Are you using PostgresApp and trying to install PostgreSQL gem and returning Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ?

I did this on Mavericks and worked. This can maybe happen on other versions of OS X.

gem install pg -- --with-pg-config="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/pg_config"

After do this I could bundle normally.