# Rails & OpenSSL: \`require\_frameworks': no such file to load

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-openssl-require-frameworks-no-such-file-to-load/46945>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [October 20, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-openssl-require-frameworks-no-such-file-to-load/46945 "2009-10-20T07:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frederick\_Cheung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/frederick_cheung/32/3901_2.png) [@Frederick\_Cheung](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Frederick_Cheung)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/rails-openssl-require-frameworks-no-such-file-to-load/46945/1 "2009-10-20T07:06:19Z")

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> I have Ruby 1.8.7, Gems 1.3.5, Rails 2.3.4, OpenSSL 0.9.8k installed on a Solaris machine.
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> I have tried using the extconf.rb in ruby/ext/opennsl, but I get this: checking for openssl/ssl.h... no

Maybe you need to tell extconf where you ssl stuff is. You should be able to do something along the lines of

ruby extconf --with-openssl-include=/path/to/openssl/headers --with- openssl-lib=/path/to/openssl/libraries

Fred