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How to fix "extconf.rb:8:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)"

Thomas Eisenbarth
January 25, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

If you're on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
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On other platforms: Look for a package containing ruby header files. On Red Hat that's "ruby-devel" likely.

Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2011-01-25 18:40)