ERROR: Error installing capybara-webkit:

ruby-on-rails ruby gem capybara capybara-webkit
Michael Durrant picture Michael Durrant · Jul 6, 2012 · Viewed 34.2k times · Source

Any suggestions on how to fix?

gem install capybara-webkit -v '0.11.0'
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing capybara-webkit:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /home/durrantm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby extconf.rb
sh: qmake: not found


Gem files will remain installed in /home/durrantm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/capybara-webkit-0.11.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/durrantm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/capybara-webkit-0.11.0/./gem_make.out

Answer

sites picture sites · Jul 24, 2012

If you are in Ubuntu do

sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-core libqt4-gui

If you are on Mac

brew install qt

and then

gem install capybara-webkit -v '0.11.0'

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