Ruby gems that require building native extensions

[Setsuna Kirigaya]

I'm writing all my scripts in Ruby and it's working great so far, except I can't use any gem that requires to build native extensions such as sqlite3 or nokogiri.

I can't see any easy way for now (installing gcc by recompiling OpenWrt, finding ruby-dev, libsqlite3-dev packages for OpenWrt...), so I'd be glad if anyone had an easier solution!

It would be great to be able to run Sinatra apps on my Omega.

Thanks!

[Jarek Zgoda]

I need to do the same for Python. I guess there will be some cross compiling involved.

[tommaso tani]

Hi! Have you eventually managed to find how to install ruby-dev? It Is really annoying being unable to build native extensions!

[Pinit Asavanuchit]

Me too. Can't install gem such as ruby-serial.

[Lazar Demin]

I've added python-dev to the Onion package repo
Unfortunately ruby-dev is not yet available as a package for LEDE!

[tommaso tani]

@Lazar-Demin thank you! Do you know any workaround to get this to work? I really need those headers

[Lazar Demin]

@tommaso-tani Can't think of any workaround except for cross-compiling ruby-dev yourself! Sorry!