Ruby Native Extension - Manual Compilation

Question

I created new Ruby C Extension and hosted it in GitHub, and I install via Bundler (gem 'my_cool_gem', git: '..').

But when I run the application (rails s) I get an error -

cannot load such file -- my_cool_gem/my_cool_gem

My current solution, is to manually compile it:

$ cd $(bundle show my_cool_gem)
$ rm ext/my_cool_gem/*.o
$ rake compile

only then, my app works.

Any ideas?

Have you listed the extension in the `gemspec`? – matt Aug 11 '17 at 15:59 — matt, Aug 11 '17 at 15:59
@matt yes, I listed my extension in `gemspec` – Yosi Aug 11 '17 at 17:36 — Yosi, Aug 11 '17 at 17:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '17 at 20:13

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You probably misconfigured your extconf.rb.

Make sure you have create_makefile line to look like:

create_makefile(File.join(extension_name, extension_name))

answered Aug 13 '17 at 20:13

Alex Simenduev

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