From: Tammy Mc Date: 2006-10-01T10:36:55+09:00 Subject: Re: help: digest/sha2.so: no such file to load -- digest.so Well I installed ruby 1.8.4 exactly the same way I had installed 1.85: 36 17:25 ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-pthread --with-readline-dir=/usr/local 37 17:27 make 38 17:34 make test 39 17:53 sudo make install 40 17:53 make clean And, voila, ruby works, gem is installed, gem works, and rails is now installing via gem. Notice the "make test" step worked for 1.8.4 too. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.