Using private_pub gem

Question

I wanted to use private_pub gem to follow along with this screencast : http://railscasts.com/episodes/316-private-pub

However, when I run rails g private_pub:install, I get this error Could not find hiredis-0.3.2 in any of the sources.

Running bundle install install most of the dependencies, however, gives fatal error: sys/socket.h: No such file or directory when trying install hiredis.

So, how do I use private_pub in windows 7?

Answer 1

Could not find hiredis-0.3.2 is any of the sources

• Windows 7

There is no support of hiredis on Windows (as of this answer). You can take a look at the pull requests for Windows at the github repo for hiredis

• https://github.com/redis/hiredis/pull/52
• https://github.com/redis/hiredis/pull/139
• https://github.com/redis/hiredis/pull/48

With respect to your private_pub gem - the comment on the railscast video shows the issue has been occuring for quite some time on windows

Answer 2

I can use private_pub on windows. I did it a long ago, but I run private_pub with:

bundle exec private_pub.ru -s thin -E production

It only works with ruby 1.9.2. I had no success with 1.9.3.