For those of you who struggled through the message boards to try and fix this here is what fixed it for me. I am installing and running Ruby on Rails for the first time and running through one of the online tutorials. I am using Ubuntu and kept getting the error message of the original post.
1. "su" to become root and do "apt-get install libopenssl-ruby" to get all the whole library. 2. To get the header files, still as root, do "apt-get install ruby1.8-dev" which gives the development headers. 3. Now you can go to the "ruby_directory/ext/openssl" and run "ruby extconf.rb" and it should work with no problem. Then "run make". Then "make install". I kept trying to go to the ext/openssl directory and run the "ruby extconf.rb" and it kept telling me to go to hell!. Once you run those two apt-get's it should have everything you need to install openssl. Oh to clarify on the directory "~/ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/openssl$" so it is just the latest ruby package installed to the home directory. Hope that helps the new users! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
