Trying to use rails: Load Error (no such file...)

I have just installed rails and am working my way through the tutorial on railstutorial.org. In CH2 where you set up the basic app, after I generate the scaffold for the users and I try to load the page, @http@://localhost:3000/users I receive:

LoadError: (no such file to load -- openssl):

The default page loads properly. I even tried the tutorial on http://guides.rubyonrails.org and changed the config/routes.rb file to read:

  Blog::Application.routes.draw do    
  #...  # You can have the root of your site routed with "root"  
  # just remember to delete          public/index.html.  
  root :to => "home#index"

The error is still the same. I am not sure what openssl is.

Any help is appreciated. Many thanks.

Edit: Sorry. Using Fedora 13 and Ruby1.9.2/Rails 3.0

ruby-on-rails

winarm

Posted 2010-09-27T02:55:39.137

Reputation: 189

Which OS are you using ? Also mention the version of Ruby & Rails – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-09-27T04:10:44.387

Answers

Try using RVM, you can manage ruby versions and gems easily. It also provides answers for many questions related to missing libraries like openssl in your case. link text

qmmr

Posted 2010-09-27T02:55:39.137

Reputation: 128

My guess is that Ruby was built without OpenSSL support. Try building from source, following step 4 of the readme: edit ext/Setup and remove the # before openssl. Then make and make install.

Note: I don't have a Fedora system available, so I haven't tested this.

Velociraptors

Posted 2010-09-27T02:55:39.137

Reputation: 1 207

Changed the file as instructed and ran make-make install. Same result. I probably messed up something. Thanks though – winarm – 2010-09-28T17:37:43.770

If you don't have the ssl headers, it won't build. Did you get any output along those lines when you ran make? – Velociraptors – 2010-09-28T22:32:47.037