Issue #863 has been updated by Chad Woolley. Your first command fails for me: $ /usr/local/lib/ruby1.8.7/bin/ruby1.8.7 -ropenssl -e 'p OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER' /usr/local/lib/ruby1.8.7/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/ssl.rb:26: uninitialized constant OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER (NameError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby1.8.7/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:23:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby1.8.7/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:23 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/863 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org