# Openssl error after upgrading to 1.8.7

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-after-upgrading-to-1-8-7/141158>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 23, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-after-upgrading-to-1-8-7/141158 "2008-06-23T00:37:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![jarvo88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@jarvo88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jarvo88)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-after-upgrading-to-1-8-7/141158/1 "2008-06-23T00:37:49Z")

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/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl/ssl.rb:26: uninitialized constant  
OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY\_PEER (NameError)  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:23:in `require’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/openssl.rb:23

Yeah the subject says it all really, I get this error everytime I try  
to run a script that uses the socket library, although it sometimes  
works, weird. Any idea why this is happening?

Thanks,  
Lee

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**Author:** ![jarvo88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@jarvo88](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jarvo88)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-error-after-upgrading-to-1-8-7/141158/2 "2008-06-26T14:20:41Z")

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Did your openssl.so build? Mine didn’t, and this is the error I got.