From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-02-22T07:51:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.8.7 post installation problem


On Feb 21, 2009, at 07:13 , Vivek Singh wrote:

> Installation of ruby-1.8.7 was successfull.
>
> [vivek@localhost ruby-1.8.7-p72]$ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-linux]
>
> But when I tried to start irb
>
> [vivek@localhost ruby-1.8.7-p72]$ irb
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/ssl.rb:26: uninitialized constant
> OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER (NameError)
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:23:in `require'
>        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:23
>
> Any suggestion or help is highly-2 appreciated.

haven't seen that one before. Do you have a ~/.irbrc? If so, what are  
the contents of it?