October 29, 2013
Install capybara-webkit on Mavericks
I got a brand new Mac Air recently, when I tried to install
capybara-webkit I encountered some problems.
The Error
Got this error when bundle install one rails app.
Installing capybara-webkit (0.12.1)
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/Users/qihuan-piao/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby extconf.rb
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/qihuan-piao/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/qihuan-piao/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/capybara-webkit-0.12.1/./gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing capybara-webkit (0.12.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install capybara-webkit -v '0.12.1'` succeeds before bundling.
Tried brew install qt didn’t get luck, raised this error:
brew install qt4 --build-from-source
==> Downloading http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.5/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.5.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/qt-4.8.5.tar.gz
==> ./configure -prefix /usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.5 -system-zlib -confirm-license -opensource -nomake demos -nomake examples -cocoa -fast -release -no-3dnow -L/opt/X11/lib -I/opt/X11/include -pl
==> make
^
7 errors generated.
make[2]: *** [.obj/release-shared/qdrawhelper_ssse3.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [release] Error 2
make: *** [sub-gui-make_default-ordered] Error 2
READ THIS: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting
These open issues may also help:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/22283
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/23480
Solution
Checked all those links and tried several things, eventually downloading
qt installer from the qt-project website solved my problem.
Just install the debug libraries, qt libraries then bundle install
again.
Note
If you already got qt installed and capybara-webkit worked before
upgrade to Mavericks, then it’s probably gonna work as well.
