getting openssl installed for Ruby

[Larry Siden]

This isn't a question, I just want to document it in case it helps someone else who runs into this problem on Ubuntu.

I'm starting to use Mechanize to do some integrated testing.  Ruby dumped:

/home/lsiden/.rvm/ruby-1.9.1-p243/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/https.rb:102:in `require': no such file to load -- openssl (LoadError)

from /home/lsiden/.rvm/ruby-1.9.1-p243/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/https.rb:102:in `<top (required)>'

I found this discussion but it didn't quite help.  First I needed to do:

1. sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby1.9.1
2. sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Then I followed the instruction in the article, went to $HOME/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.1-p243/ext/openssl and did:

1. ruby extconf.rb
2. make
3. sudo make install

Hope this helps someone else.

Larry Siden, 734-926-9614, http://umich.edu/~lsiden

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