# "LoadError: no such file to load -- openssl", following Rails Guides **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 17, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loaderror-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-following-rails-guides/190335 "2010-06-17T22:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![James\_Fisher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@James\_Fisher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Fisher)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loaderror-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-following-rails-guides/190335/1 "2010-06-17T22:42:00Z")
[With apologies for cross-posting at [http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=39587](http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=39587)] Hi all, I’m following the edge ‘getting started’ guide at [rails.info](http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html), 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/](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](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 `' /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 `\’ /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 `' /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. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Fisher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@James\_Fisher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Fisher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loaderror-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-following-rails-guides/190335/2 "2010-06-18T11:46:21Z")
bump. presumably this is a simple issue. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Fisher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@James\_Fisher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/James_Fisher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/loaderror-no-such-file-to-load-openssl-following-rails-guides/190335/3 "2010-06-18T12:20:54Z")
OK, I got it fixed, following the instructions at [Openssl error - ubuntu - Ruby - Ruby-Forum](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`?