Last Updated: April 30, 2019
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· oesmith

therubyracer 0.10.1, libv8 3.3.10.4, Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7 and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion - how to make it work

If you're reading this, you've probably had failures trying to install therubyracer with ruby 1.8 on OS X.

The fix is... (drumroll)...

RUBYOPT=-rrubygems gem install therubyracer

For those who are interested in the reasons why this works: the extconf.rb file for libv8 3.3.10.4, upon which therubyracer seems to depend, uses Gems without importing rubygems (which is fine in ruby 1.9). Adding -rrubygems to RUBYOPT makes sure rubygems are pulled in first.

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Nice one, Olly! Worked a charm.

over 1 year ago ·

good catch, it makes total sense when read "aloud".

over 1 year ago ·

Now, it is stuck on "Building native extensions. This could take awhile...."

over 1 year ago ·