Comments on: Installing/Updating SQLite3 on Windows

By: ElenaLisvato

ElenaLisvato — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:53:59 +0000

It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place.

By: ERROR: While executing gem … (Zlib::BufError) in windows | Anlek's Blog

Thu, 21 May 2009 19:22:22 +0000

[...] First, based on dontrepeatyourself, I updated to the latested gem system (version 1.3.3). gem update –system Based on what I’ve read on the site, it fixed the issue for a lot of people (keep in mind this is an article from 2007) but it didn’t fix my issue. I continued looking for another solution, and I found a bunch of Window’s specific fixes that involved altering ruby code which I wasn’t going to attempt. Some article comments said to re-install ruby but who has time for that? Other posts (in the comments) said to download windows specific GZip ports but that also had no effect. I even installed a zliby gem hoping it would replace the Zlib but that still didn’t work. So I did what every windows user should do when the problem isn’t getting fixed, REBOOT!. After the reboot, gems updated without a problem (well except of the usual SQLite3 update error on windows [...]

By: Joachim

Joachim — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:55:57 +0000

Thannk you very much, nice and clean explanation:)

By: Jebac

Jebac — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:40:07 +0000

Thanks mate! 1.2.3 and it worked I just wanted to play around with RoR almighty for the first time and ran into couple of needless frustrations. RoR community is advertising this as something beyond any realms of known universe, the ultimate truth and flawless technology. Yet in only first few steps to get it up and running there are so many errors and documentation mistakes it is unbelievable. Seems like working on Linux in 1999.

By: Micke

Micke — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:52:13 +0000

Thanks mate!

1.2.4 still doesn´t work…

By: andrew.kalek

andrew.kalek — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:04:55 +0000

I’m glad I could help.

By: Branden

Branden — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:17:17 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for your post. This saved me! 1.2.4 is still having some issues and I couldn’t figure out what the hell I did. Man they shouldn’t allow that in the repos when it’s breaking things. I updated to Rails 2.2 So I could try out some of the new features and sure enough sqlite 1.2.4 was pissed off at me. I’ve downgraded to 1.2.3 and everything is working fine. Thanks

By: andrew.kalek

andrew.kalek — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:06:00 +0000

Marciano, you might need to uninstall the gem first (by calling: gem uninstall sqlite3-ruby) then try to install again using the version flag.

By: andrew.kalek

andrew.kalek — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:02:56 +0000

It seems your still calling 1.2.4 (as you can see from your result). I’d recommend you re-type the command:
gem install –version 1.2.3 sqlite3-ruby
As copy and paste might be braking something.
If you still have issues, let me know.

By: Marciano

Marciano — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:33:34 +0000

Sorry your solution does not work 9/28.

D:/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install ûversion 1.2.3 sqlite3-ruby
checking for fdatasync() in rt.lib… no
checking for sqlite3.h… no

nmake
‘nmake’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1
.2.4 for inspection.
Results logged to D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_
api/gem_make.out