"LoadError: no such file to load -- openssl", following Rails Guides

[With apologies for cross-posting at http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=39587]

Hi all,

I'm following the edge 'getting started' guide at rails.info, running ROR 3. I'm running Ruby 1.9.2 (as instructed by the guide), installed using RVM.

I get an error when following "4.3 Setting the Application Home Page". When making a request to http://localhost:3000/ , I get:

lm@office:~/blog$ rails server => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.0.0.beta4 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server [2010-06-17 17:40:09] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1 [2010-06-17 17:40:09] INFO ruby 1.9.2 (2010-05-31) [i686-linux] [2010-06-17 17:40:09] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=15264 port=3000 [2010-06-17 17:40:16] ERROR LoadError: no such file to load -- openssl     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `block in require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:198:in `block in load_dependency'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:554:in `new_constants_in'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:198:in `load_dependency'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `require'     /home/lm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/ https.rb:92:in `<top (required)>'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `block in require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:198:in `block in load_dependency'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:554:in `new_constants_in'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:198:in `load_dependency'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activeresource-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_resource/connection.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `block in require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:198:in `block in load_dependency'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:554:in `new_constants_in'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:198:in `load_dependency'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:212:in `require'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activeresource-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_resource/base.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activeresource-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_resource/railties/ log_subscriber.rb:11:in `logger'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/log_subscriber.rb:76:in `map'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/log_subscriber.rb:76:in `flushable_loggers'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/log_subscriber.rb:84:in `flush_all!'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:30:in `after_dispatch'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:16:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/ runtime.rb:17:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/ activesupport-3.0.0.beta4/lib/active_support/cache/strategy/ local_cache.rb:72:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/ lock.rb:11:in `block in call'     <internal:prelude>:10:in `synchronize'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/ lock.rb:11:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/actionpack-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb:30:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/application.rb:145:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/application.rb:81:in `method_missing'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/railties-3.0.0.beta4/ lib/rails/rack/log_tailer.rb:15:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/ content_length.rb:13:in `call'     /home/lm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/ handler/webrick.rb:48:in `service'     /home/lm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/ httpserver.rb:111:in `service'     /home/lm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/ httpserver.rb:70:in `run'     /home/lm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-preview3/lib/ruby/1.9.1/webrick/ server.rb:183:in `block in start_thread'

The important line apparently being "LoadError: no such file to load -- openssl".

The net suggested installing libssl-dev (on Ubuntu 10.04), which I did, then recompiling Ruby, which I did (via running `rvm install 1.9.2` again). This didn't help.

There don't seem to be any gems for openssl, so I can't see that it's that.

Now I'm out of ideas.

bump. presumably this is a simple issue.

OK, I got it fixed, following the instructions at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/90083 .

I’m still not really happy, though. How many more issues are there going to be for which I am going to have to recompile Ruby? And why did this configure/compile not happen when I installed ruby, from source, using rvm install 1.9.2?