From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2013-06-10T08:53:14+09:00
Subject: Re: "Unable to require openssl" is driving me crazy gem 2.0.3 might be broken

On 06/09/2013 04:31 PM, Ruby Student wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Justin Collins <justincollins@ucla.edu
 > <mailto:justincollins@ucla.edu>> wrote:
 >
 >     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/
 > 
<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/
 > 
<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/
 > 
<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/
 > 
<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
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > --
 > Ruby Student

> I already have the openssl development package. I recompiled and got the
> same errors.
>
> *rpm -qa | grep -i openssl*
>
> openssl-perl-1.0.0-25.el6_3.1.
> x86_64
> openssl-1.0.0-25.el6_3.1.x86_64
> openssl-devel-1.0.0-25.el6_3.1.x86_64
> openssl-1.0.0-25.el6_3.1.i686
> openssl-static-1.0.0-25.el6_3.1.x86_64
> openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.x86_64
>

If you go to the ext/openssl/ directory in the Ruby source code and run 
"ruby extconf.rb" does it succeed?

-Justin