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- macOS requires platform specific Gems. Run `bundle config specific_platform true` before running `bin/setup`.

- The `surro-gate` gem contains C code which generates errors on some compilers.

You can add build flags to your bundler config:
```
bundle config set build.surro-gate --with-cflags=\"-Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types\"
```

Or use `gem install`:
```
gem install surro-gate -- --with-cflags="-Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types"
```

- If you've run PostgreSQL in a container, be sure to export the `DATABASE_URL` variable to connect to the container over TCP instead of a UNIX file socket.

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