Help with setting up discourse An error occurred while installing xorcist (1.1.2), and Bundler cannot continue

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PowerPlays is experiencing an issue while installing Discourse, specifically with the xorcist gem (1.1.2). The error occurs during the bundle install process and is caused by the inability to find the ruby development environment, which is required to build the gem. The error message suggests installing a separate package for the ruby development environment, such as ruby-dev or ruby-devel.

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When I do bundle install I get this error: An error occurred while installing xorcist (1.1.2), and Bundler cannot continue.

Can someone help.

Here is the docs Im following currently:

here is the full error if that helps.

In Gemfile:
  unf was resolved to 0.1.4, which depends on
    unf_ext


Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/xorcist-1.1.2/ext/xorcist
/usr/bin/ruby2.7 -I /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0 -r ./siteconf20211120-12641-1468e8.rb extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h

You might have to install separate package for the ruby development
environment, ruby-dev or ruby-devel for example.

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/xorcist-1.1.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.7.0/xorcist-1.1.2/gem_make.out

  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:97:in `run'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/ext_conf_builder.rb:48:in `block in build'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/tempfile.rb:291:in `open'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/ext_conf_builder.rb:30:in `build'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:167:in `block in build_extension'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:163:in `synchronize'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:163:in `build_extension'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:208:in `block in build_extensions'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:205:in `each'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/ext/builder.rb:205:in `build_extensions'
  /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems/installer.rb:844:in `build_extensions'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/rubygems_gem_installer.rb:71:in `build_extensions'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/rubygems_gem_installer.rb:28:in `install'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/source/rubygems.rb:200:in `install'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/installer/gem_installer.rb:54:in `install'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/installer/gem_installer.rb:16:in `install_from_spec'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/installer/parallel_installer.rb:186:in `do_install'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/installer/parallel_installer.rb:177:in `block in worker_pool'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/worker.rb:62:in `apply_func'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/worker.rb:57:in `block in process_queue'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/worker.rb:54:in `loop'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/worker.rb:54:in `process_queue'
  /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bundler-2.2.31/lib/bundler/worker.rb:91:in `block (2 levels) in create_threads'

An error occurred while installing xorcist (1.1.2), and Bundler cannot continue.

In Gemfile:
  xorcist
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