RubyGems problem: Does migration assistant copy across xcode & Rubygems?

Migration assistant has finished copying across my data and I'm now trying to get my Rails apps running again (I was hoping that Migration Assistant would do the biz with RubyGems, etc). At the moment I'm trying to install all required gems, but struggling with hpricot due to the following error;
sudo gem install hpricot
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing hpricot:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
can't find header files for ruby.
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.8.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.8.1/ext/hpricotscan/gemmake.out
Is this related to xcode or the version of RubyGems? What am I missing?

Pretend you're in charge of writing Migration Assistant for a minute. How are you going to magically know everything about every piece of software everyone could possibly install in various locations on their system? Would you even bother trying, or would you focus on moving the things that most normal people care about and just assume that anyone who knew how to install their own stuff on the command line can probably figure out how to do it again?

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  • Migration Assistant Copied System Preferences from a Third HD!

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    2. Question - After completely removing the original MacPro HD from the machine, why did Migration Assistant set up the new HD with the System Preferences on an HD that I had completely removed from the machine?
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    Message was edited by: inknpaper

    inknpaper wrote:
    I used Migration Assistant to copy files off an iMac and onto a new HD in a MacPro. I purchased a second HD for the MacPro especially for this occasion because I wanted to leave the original MacPro HD intact. At this point, I had two HD's in the MacPro. After installing Snow Leopard, Migration Assistant copied all files and users as expected but something very strange happened:
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    Have a read here http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/SetupOther.html
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  • Problems using Migration Assistant from Tiger to Snow Leopard

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    markwmsn wrote:
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    markwmsn wrote:
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    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
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    http://hackthemac.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/chubby-bunny-old-virtual-machine.html
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  • I am having problems with migration assistant (windows pc to Mac 2011) When I get to the 'Quit other applications' box and click continue, nothing happens. There are no other apps running - any ideas, please?

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  • Problem with Migration Assistant

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    Hi jvancil,
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    -mj
    [email protected]

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    Hold everything. I found my answer here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/11721764?messageID=11721764#11721764?messa geID=11721764
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