Openssl problems

Rails
1

Help!

I am one problem away from launching our new rails app. Sorry if this
isn’t
totally a rails question but my whole rails app is dependent on it and
this
group has been helpful.

Does anyone know why I continually get the following error?

irb(main):001:0> require ‘openssl’

LoadError: no such file to load – openssl

    from (irb):1:in `require'

    from (irb):1

I’ve read every post on the internet about this. I’ve blown away my
ruby
install like 6 times. But I think apt-get is putting my libraries
somewhere
that ruby isn’t seeing them…? How can I check?

I’ve installed:

Ubuntu 6.10

ruby 1.8.5

openssl

libssl-dev

libopenssl-ruby

libzlib-ruby

libyaml-ruby

libdrb-ruby

liberb-ruby

zlib1g-dev

Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Chad

2

when I “require openssl” in irb, i get false, but not “file not found”.

check if your /1.8/openssl folder exists.

try run following code from command line. if you still get error, then
u got some serious problem. :frowning:

require ‘openssl’

class Cipher
@@cipher_key = nil
@@cipher_iv = nil

def self.encrypt(data_to_encrypt)
  cipher = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new( "aes-128-cbc" )
  cipher.encrypt
  cipher.key = @@cipher_key = cipher.random_key
  cipher.iv = @@cipher_iv = cipher.random_iv

  output = cipher.update( data_to_encrypt )
  output << cipher.final
end

def self.decrypt(data)
  cipher = OpenSSL::Cipher::Cipher.new( "aes-128-cbc" )
  cipher.decrypt
  cipher.key = @@cipher_key
  cipher.iv = @@cipher_iv

  output = cipher.update( data )
  output << cipher.final
end

end

msg = Cipher.encrypt(“1234567890”)
puts msg
puts Cipher.decrypt(msg)

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3

That’s the thing… My directory:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/ does NOT have an openssl directory… I keep
installing it, but it doesn’t put it there. I just get these:

[/] # find / -name openssl
/usr/bin/openssl
/usr/include/openssl
/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl
/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl

Should I try copying some files over directly to the ruby/1.8
directory?

4

libopenssl-ruby

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5

Ya that was installed, but thanks…

After 2 days, i got it to work… I cleaned out all the current
openssl files, then took the ruby 1.8.5 source, went into the
ruby-1.8.5/ext/openssl directory and created the openssl make file:

ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

and that fiiiiinally but the libraries where they should go.

6

that sucked. i’m on gentoo, openssl for ruby is installed by default.

you don’t have to move openssl out of ext/, if you have “ruby/ext/” in
the loading path. i don’t much about how ruby class loading work.

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