Felipe Gentil

Install pg gem on MacOS

21 Mar 2017
ruby

If you’re facing an error while installing like this one.. 

Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing pg: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

Try downloading Postgress.app and then install the gem this way:

gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.6/bin/pg_config

PS. Remember to specify Postgres.app version above.

Cheers :)