From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T07:22:21+09:00
Subject: Re: SSL and gems -- was Re: Rake 0.6.0 Released

Chris Martin wrote:
...
> 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

If you're not using packages and are building ruby from source, you can do

export RUBYOPT=

in your shell before building ruby. Then, if you have openssl installed
(not the ruby binding--the real openssl lib), the ruby openssl extension
in the ext/ dir will build and install. Then you can have

export RUBYOPT=rubygems

or whatever.

But I think Jim's fix to RubyGems will get around this entirely.

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