"Error: Failed to build gem native extension" after shopify app dev command

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Issue: Users encountered a \

Summarized with AI on November 7. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Thanks for this solution! I had the latest cli, ruby, and node installed and it was still giving me that error message. With your solution, everything worked!

Sucks we have to spend hours trying to get our machines to install and get the setup working. Things shouldn’t be this difficult (even for a developer).

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