Hi,

From: "Jonathan Leighton" <lists / turnipspatch.com>
>
> Where I work we have an Ubuntu server. I installed Ruby by compiling the
> 1.8.4 sources. According to the standard library documentation at
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/, the openssl library should be included
> in the standard distribution -- I need this in order to run SwitchTower.
> However, it doesn't appear to be there. I cannot require it, and
> checking in /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 I cannot see anything to do with
> openssl. Anyone have any ideas? Am I supposed to do something else?

I don't know why it doesn't build automatically, but whenever I build
ruby from source, I do the following:

  cd ext/openssl
  make install

in order to build the ruby openssl extension.

(On debian, I also recall having needed to build the OpenSSL library
[not the ruby extension, but the system library] from a source package,
in order to get the needed header files.)


Hope this helps,

Bill