# Having a hard time installing \`eth\` gem in a plugin in production

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**Created:** [February 8, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/having-a-hard-time-installing-eth-gem-in-a-plugin-in-production/217496 "2022-02-08T11:54:21Z")\
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I’m having to install the `eth` gem in a plugin but really having a hard time doing that. It depends on a bunch of other gems, a few of which have native extensions. Here’s the dependency list if you wanna give it a try.

```plaintext
gem 'pkg-config', '1.4.7', require: false
gem 'mkmfmf', '0.4', require: false
gem 'keccak', '1.3.0', require: false
gem 'zip', '2.0.2', require: false
gem 'mini_portile2', '2.7.0', require: false
gem 'rbsecp256k1', '5.1.0', require: false
gem 'konstructor', '1.0.2', require: false
gem 'ffi', '1.15.5', require: false
gem 'ffi-compiler', '1.0.1', require: false
gem 'scrypt', '3.0.7', require: false
gem 'eth', '0.5.1', require: false
gem 'siwe', '1.0.0', require: false

```

The issue is with `rbsecp256k1`. It tries to require `mini_portile2` for building its native extensions but can’t find it inspite of it being installed and `require`d. I’ve gone to great lengths, like forking the gem and requiring the absolute path manually, also tried to literally clone the `mini_portile2` into `rbsecp256k1` and requiring it from there but nothing has worked yet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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