From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T04:50:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby openssl on Debian

On 6/13/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/12/06, Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've got an app that requires the openssl library.  Whenever I run it,
> > it just says "no such file to load -- openssl."  Didn't know I had to
> > install anything special to get openssl in Ruby.  What do I have to
> > do?
>
> As an aside, although it's not the Debian way, I've found it easier to
> not install the official Debian packages, but instead just install
> Ruby from source into its own --prefix=/opt/ruby-1.8.4, then install
> RubyGems, then get everything else as-needed using the gem command.
>
> Dunno if that would fix your ssl issue though.

Can you give us a little howto on that? I have been battling gem vs.
apt forever. Last time I tried to compile Ruby there were a bunch of
dependencies and it took me quite a while to get it done. Which makes
me think.. if this is the best way to go, I'll keep track and write a
script to do it next time. Though if I wrote it in Ruby I'd have to
package it as an executable or something...

I'd love to have a one-click installer under Linux that leaves all the
gems just working properly.