Out of the corner of my eye

Actually this is Ruby I guess, not even got as far as Rails! Main Rails page says “We recommend Ruby 1.8.7″ but there’s no installer for it. I think over the years I’ve had more installs of Rails fail than succeed. Back to PHP!

C:\ruby>gem install rails
Install required dependency actionpack? [Yn]
Install required dependency rack? [Yn]
Install required dependency fcgi? [Yn]
Building native extensions.  This could take a while…
ERROR:  While executing gem … (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

ruby extconf.rb install rails
checking for fcgiapp.h… no
checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h… no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
–with-opt-dir
–without-opt-dir
–with-opt-include
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
–with-opt-lib
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
–with-make-prog
–srcdir=.
–curdir
–ruby=c:/ruby/bin/ruby
–with-fcgi-dir
–without-fcgi-dir
–with-fcgi-include
–without-fcgi-include=${fcgi-dir}/include
–with-fcgi-lib
–without-fcgi-lib=${fcgi-dir}/lib

Gem files will remain installed in c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7 for
inspection.
Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.7/ext/fcgi/gem_make.ou
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