Creation of rails-api fails

[kofronpi]

Hello

My env :
Ubuntu 14.04
RVM with ruby 2.2.3
NVM with node 4.2.2

The generator fails at the rails-api part.

Here is the relevant stacktrace:

----> Installing `rails-api` gem...

$ rvm ruby-2.2.3@attract do gem install rails-api --quiet
Successfully installed thor-0.19.1
Successfully installed thread_safe-0.3.5
Successfully installed minitest-5.8.3
Successfully installed tzinfo-1.2.2
Successfully installed i18n-0.7.0
Successfully installed activesupport-4.2.5
Successfully installed rails-deprecated_sanitizer-1.0.3
Successfully installed mini_portile2-2.0.0
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rails-api:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /home/pak/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20151130-27082-bpuagn.rb extconf.rb
checking if the C compiler accepts ... *** 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
    --without-make-prog
    --srcdir=.
    --curdir
    --ruby=/home/pak/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
    --help
    --clean
/home/pak/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:456:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
    from /home/pak/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:571:in `block in try_compile'
    from /home/pak/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:522:in `with_werror'
    from /home/pak/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:571:in `try_compile'
    from extconf.rb:80:in `nokogiri_try_compile'
    from extconf.rb:87:in `block in add_cflags'
    from /home/pak/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:619:in `with_cflags'
    from extconf.rb:86:in `add_cflags'
    from extconf.rb:336:in `<main>'

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /home/pak/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3@attract/gems/nokogiri-1.6.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/pak/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3@attract/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.2.0/nokogiri-1.6.7/gem_make.out
Completed.


----> Creating Rails app...

$ rvm ruby-2.2.3@attract do rails-api new attract-api --skip-sprockets --skip-bundle --quiet --database=postgresql
/home/pak/.rvm/scripts/set: line 19: exec: rails-api: not found
Completed.

Thank you for your help

[kofronpi]

It was an issue with RVM and nokogiri I never had before: rvm/rvm#3509

I'm closing this issue, sorry.

[alex35mil]

@kofronpi No probs. Actually a lot of deps were updated in the Node app, so this generator is most likely broken. I already updated a bunch of things on my local machine and wait for this PR to post new beta of this generator.

[kofronpi]

@alexfedoseev Thank you for your answer ! I plan on using your generator for a project, so if you have some directions (a branch ? ) about fixing things in the node app before I start coding it would be great 👍

[alex35mil]

@kofronpi Not yet, on my local machine only. Too many things were changed, so it's better to wait until I push something here.