I’ve installed libcouchbase successfully: brew install libcouchbase ==> Installing libcouchbase dependency: libevent ==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/libevent-2.0.22.yosemite.bottle.tar. ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> Pour…

That did the trick! Thank you very much. (as an aside, would it be possible to add this vital detail to the official installation page?)

Cannot install couchbase gem on Mac (OSX Yosemite 10.10.2)

avsej March 9, 2015, 1:40pm 2

If you are using system ruby, you have to install fat libcouchbase library: brew install libcouchbase --universal

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