cannot build apache thrift due to ruby rake errors

Question

I am trying to build thrift from source tarball (https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/thrift/0.9.0/thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz), but it fails with this error:

Making all in rb
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/akonsu/a/thrift-0.9.0/lib/rb'
/usr/local/bin/rake 
rake aborted!
cannot load such file -- rspec/core/rake_task

I would appreciate any help.

Answer 1

this helped:

gem install rspec