Installing Ruby gem on Windows 7 – json (1.6.5) – Unfortunately, a fatal error has occurred.

I was setting up a new project in Ruby and get the message

Installing json (1.6.5) Unfortunately, a fatal error has occurred. Please report
this error to the Bundler issue tracker at https://github.com/carlhuda/bundler/issues
so that we can fix it. Thanks!

The issue is reported here, but the solution is simple.

You have to install json gem, but it give other error:

ERROR:  Error installing json:
 The 'json' native gem requires installed build tools.

Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit
 from 'http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads' and follow the instructions
 at 'http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit'

In short – install DevKit and json gem and try again.

Here are more detailed steps to follow:

1. Download DevKit from here. You have to extract DevKit files to some directory (specify separate directory. The extractor didn’t create it’s own)

2. Create config.yml running

ruby dk.rb init

in the directory where you extracted DevKit.

3. Run

ruby dk.rb install

to add DevKit to Ruby

4. Install json gem with

gem install json

You are done. Run the project creation with

rails new /path/project_name

Here are more detailed steps of installing DevKit.

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