RoR – cygwin install – pg gem

While creating a new application in RoR (on cygwin), I was having issue installing ‘pg’ gem. After a little research I found that you need to install pg-client and pg-devel libraries to install ‘pg’ gem. Even after installing both devel and client packages, still I was unable to install. It turns out I need to install with a particular platform:

gem install pg --platform=x86-mingw32

This install the gem but in my application I had to update my Gemfile as below:

gem 'pg', :platforms => 'mingw'

After doing the above steps, I was able to run bundle install successfully.

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