From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T11:36:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with new ruby install and openssl.rb (on Ubuntu)

Phor Gruber wrote:
> ruby-talkers,
>
> I've bumped into an issue with ruby and ssl.
>
> I'm trying to run a rake command which aborts because it cannot find
> openssl.rb.
>   
<snip>


Try going to your ruby-1.8.7-p72/ext/zlib/ directory, then run:

ruby extconf.rb

If that succeeds, then:

make
make install


> I'm on ubuntu-linux and I do see openssl development packages inside of
> my OS:
>
> $ apt-cache search libssl
> cl-plus-ssl - A simple Common Lisp interface to OpenSSL
> dcmtk - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit command line utilities
> libdcmtk1 - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit runtime libraries
> libdcmtk1-dev - The OFFIS DICOM toolkit development libraries and
> headers
> libssl-ocaml - OCaml bindings for OpenSSL
> libssl-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for OpenSSL
> libssl-dev - SSL development libraries, header files and documentation
> libssl0.9.8 - SSL shared libraries
> libssl0.9.8-dbg - Symbol tables for libssl and libcrypto
>
> Also, I see this:
>
> $ apt-cache search  libopenssl-ruby
> libopenssl-ruby - OpenSSL interface for Ruby
> libopenssl-ruby1.9 - OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.9
> ruby1.8 - Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8
> libopenssl-ruby1.8 - OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.8
>
> Clues anyone?
>   

Did you install Ruby via apt-get and by compiling it from the source? 
Maybe you ended up with parallel versions?

-Justin