# Ruby on Rails install problem in Linux Mint - please help a newbie

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/49722>\
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**Created:** [February 26, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/49722 "2010-02-26T18:35:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![lavezarez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lavezarez](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/lavezarez)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/49722/1 "2010-02-26T18:35:16Z")

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Hi,

I have just started to study Ruby on Rails, downloaded Ruby 1.8.7, and compiled it from source, RubyGems 1.3.6, and ran "ruby setup.rb", and installed Rails by "sudo gem install rails"

But when I do the following steps: rails path/to/your/new/application cd path/to/your/new/application ruby script/server

I can't get the web server to start ☹ with the following message:

=\> Booting WEBrick =\> Rails 2.3.5 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000) /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb: 271:in `require\_frameworks': no such file to load -- openssl (RuntimeError)

Appreciate your help on this!

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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:** [February 26, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/49722/2 "2010-02-26T19:27:03Z")

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> Hi,
> 
> I have just started to study Ruby on Rails, downloaded Ruby 1.8.7, and compiled it from source, RubyGems 1.3.6, and ran "ruby setup.rb", and installed Rails by "sudo gem install rails"

It looks like you don't have the openssl ruby extension. This is probably because you didn't have the openssl development headers around when you built ruby. Once you've got those you should be able to build the openssl extension (all the extensions are in the ext folder inside the ruby source folder)

Fred

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**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/49722/3 "2010-02-28T23:38:26Z")

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Frederick Cheung wrote: