From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2013-06-10T07:38:23+09:00
Subject: Re: "Unable to require openssl" is driving me crazy gem 2.0.3 might be broken

On 06/09/2013 03:17 PM, Ruby Student wrote:
> Hello Team,
>
> I was having lost of problems when Ruby *gem *stop working. So I
> upgraded from Ruby 1.9.3-p392
> <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/ruby-1-9-3-p392-is-released/>
> upgraded to Ruby 1.9.3-p429
> <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/ruby-1-9-3-p392-is-released/>
> mistakenly thinking that my problems would be over. The is related to
> openssl, which I tried to install with gem but gem is broken.
>
> I searched and searched for a while trying to locate the openssl library
> needed to install it without using gem, but I could not find it.
>
> The installation process for Ruby 1.9.3-p42
> <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/ruby-1-9-3-p392-is-released/>,
> (*./configure, make, make install*) went just fine without error.
>
> This is what I have:
>
> OS:
> RedHat (RHEL) 6.3, x86_64-linux
> <http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/ruby-1-9-3-p392-is-released/>
>
> *ruby -v*
> ruby 1.9.3p429 (2013-05-15 revision 40747) [x86_64-linux]
>
> *gem -v*
> 2.0.3
>
> If I do a *gem list*, it works fine displaying the local installed gems.
>
> If I tried to download a gem or upgrade gem itself, it fails. Anything
> that requires to reach out outside my server, it fails.
>
> For example,
>
> *gem list --remote*
>
> *** REMOTE GEMS ***
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::Exception)
>      Unable to require openssl, install OpenSSL and rebuild ruby
> (preferred) or use non-HTTPS sources

<snip>

You probably need to install the openssl development package and then 
recompile Ruby. It should be called something like "openssl-devel".

If you use RVM it would probably take care of this for you: 
https://rvm.io/rvm/autolibs/

-Justin