From: Chris Martin <chriscodes@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T04:33:41+09:00
Subject: Re: SSL and gems -- was Re: Rake 0.6.0 Released

On 9/7/05, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 September 2005 11:39 pm, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> > Jim Weirich wrote:
> > > Yeah, its the fact that the gem is signed and RubyGems is insisting on
> > > having SSL available.  I think it should only do that if the security
> > > policy requires it, but that's a gems issue that needs looking into.
> > >
> > > So, what to do?
> > >
> > > (1) If you thought you had SSL, and you don't, then you probably should
> > > look into that.
> >
> > That's it. My openssl.so was not installed correctly. It built ok in
> > ext/openssl, but I had to disable the RUBYOPT=rubygems for it to install
> > (and then gem update was able to install rake-0.6.0). With
> > RUBYOPT=rubygems, I was getting this:
> >
> > $ make install
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/security.rb:18: uninitialized
> > constant OpenSSL::Digest::SHA1 (NameError)
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:397:in `require'
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:397
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4:in `require'
> >         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:4
> > make: *** [/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/openssl.so] Error 1
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.  RubyGems assumes that if you can successfully
> require the openssl library, then ssl is available.  Unfortunately, in the
> half installed state you were in, the openssl.so library was available but
> not the ruby portion (openssl.rb).  So the require succeeded, fooling
> RubyGems into thinking the entire ssl infrastructure was in place when it was
> not.
> 
> I'll put a fix in for that.
> 
> --
> -- Jim Weirich    jim@weirichhouse.org     http://onestepback.org
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
> not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
> 
> 

To clarify for the slow and/or nubys who might get this error when
installing and/or updating gems for rails.

The ruby openssl library needs to be installed. eg, debian needs
libopenssl-ruby1.8

May be the error could be made clearer, I was sitting there going,
"but it IS installed!" in much more expletive words. ;)
I even read this thread last night, but your explanation didn't click
until I double checked it today.

-- 
Chris Martin
Web Developer
Open Source & Web Standards Advocate
http://www.chriscodes.com/