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PostGreSQL error on railstutorial 3.2
Installing pg (0.12.2) with native extensions
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/Users/toast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin/ruby extconf.rb --without-pg-config
checking for pg_config... no
No pg_config... trying anyway. If building fails, please try again with
--with-pg-config=/path/to/pg_config
checking for libpq-fe.h... no
Can't find the 'libpq-fe.h header
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/Users/toast/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin/ruby
--with-pg
--without-pg
--with-pg-dir
--without-pg-dir
--with-pg-include
--without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include
--with-pg-lib
--without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/lib
--with-pg-config
--without-pg-config
--with-pg_config
--without-pg_config
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/toast/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/pg-0.12.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/toast/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0@rails3tutorial/gems/pg-0.12.2/ext/gem_make.out
An error occured while installing pg (0.12.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install pg -v '0.12.2'` succeeds before bundling.
toasts-spacbook:demo_app toast$
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ysr23 commented Jan 25, 2012

solved with this http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-wrangle-the-pg-postgresql-gem-with-macports-and-rvm-1159.html

sudo port install postgresql90

gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/opt/local/lib/postgresql90/bin/pg_config

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