Question

So ive got a smartos 64 plus machine (joyent)

It DIDN’T have rails installed as i got a

Could not find gem 'rdoc (~> 3.4)', required by 'rails (= 3.0.9)', in any of the sources

Error trying to run a rails app (via rails s)

So I installed rails via

sudo gem install rails

And i got an error:

make: gcc: Command not found

It also said (when i tried to download the source and compile manually)

checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
checking target system type... i386-pc-solaris2.11
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/apps/ruby-1.9.3-p125':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Btw i also tried the smartos packager

pkgin in ruby19-rails-3.0.9

Im a bit confused because the SmartOS plus version is supposed to have most of this preinstalled!

Answer 1

looks like you might have to do the gcc manually. This post has some information about it. pkgin install gcc-compiler gcc-runtime gcc-tools-0 is the command they suggest.