[Rubyinstaller-devel] Best way of installing sqlite3-ruby gem?

[Luis Lavena]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Charles Roper
<reachme at charlesroper.co.uk> wrote:
> Luis Lavena wrote:
>>
>> Right now you can build it using my sqlite3-ruby fork at GitHub:
>>
>> http://github.com/luislavena/sqlite3-ruby
>
> Sorry, please excuse my ignorance, when you say build it, how do I do that?
> I have the devkit installed and working, but don't know how to build a gem
> manually... I have to run a rake task presumably?
>

No worries:

You need Git and the compiler around.

git clone the URL.

cd into the fresh cloned repository.

rake native gem

gem install --local pkg/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4-x86-mingw32.gem

(or something like that, don't remember the version number)

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Luis Lavena
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