# Openssl - cant find the ruby bindings

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-cant-find-the-ruby-bindings/84053>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 31, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-cant-find-the-ruby-bindings/84053 "2007-01-31T22:09:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-cant-find-the-ruby-bindings/84053/1 "2007-01-31T22:09:07Z")

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I’m getting this error when trying to run a rails app:

/usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in  
`gem\_original\_require’: no such file to load – openssl  
(MissingSourceFile)

I cant find any sites that are up that have the ruby ssl bindings.  
But I also saw some documentation that they are part of Ruby 1.8. Can  
anyone point me in the right direction?

ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux] (the only Ruby installation on the  
machine(  
Xubuntu Edgy

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-cant-find-the-ruby-bindings/84053/2 "2007-01-31T22:31:09Z")

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Cheers - got it - seems its a debian packaging issue.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@nicken](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nicken)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-cant-find-the-ruby-bindings/84053/3 "2007-01-31T22:17:07Z")

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On 1/31/07, Nick B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux] (the only Ruby installation on the machine(  
> Xubuntu Edgy

sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby1.8

if you have installed ruby via apt (not from source)