From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-11-28T13:46:27+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems 0.9.5 not finding SSL package

On Nov 24, 2007, at 13:27 PM, Mike Berrow wrote:
> I am trying to install rails on xubuntu with the line
> sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
>
> It terminates with this error:
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::Exception)
>    SSL is not installed on this system
>
> I have these packages installed
>   libssl0.9.8
>   libssl-dev
>   openssl 0.9.8e-5ubuntu3.1
>   libopenssl-ruby
>   libopenssl-ruby1.8
>
> I built ruby 1.8.6 from source here (as per advice elsewhere).
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]
> $ gem -v
> 0.9.5
> $ uname -a
> Linux xubuntu 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007  
> i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> Any ideas?


At that point, RubyGems is doing the equivalent of:

ruby -e "require 'openssl'"

I'm researching why RubyGems now seems to require OpenSSL, but haven't  
discovered the cause yet.