From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T07:37:44+09:00
Subject: Re: SSL and gems -- was Re: Rake 0.6.0 Released


Joel VanderWerf said:
> 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.

The patch in RubyGems CVS will address this exact problem.  We still need
to fix the gem command so that it can install signed gems without SSL
installed ... but I don't think that will be a hard problem.

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