# Openssl

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl/186602>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 9, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl/186602 "2010-04-09T13:51:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![halfbyte](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@halfbyte](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/halfbyte)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl/186602/1 "2010-04-09T13:51:35Z")

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Hello,  
I have some kind of weird problem. I’d like to use new instalation of  
rails,  
I have installed the gems to the Ruby, then the Rails. When I use  
command  
script/generate there appear some error mesage, that I do not have  
openssl  
installed

As a solution to this problem I googled to install openssl development  
package…but I already had it!

Same problem is with this program passenger, it have a nice installation  
program. I ran it, it told me, what is missing in my system and sugested  
commands to fix it, all missing items were fixed after that, but this  
openssl thing is still missing - tels me the instalator.

Any ideas how to tell to ruby / rails that I actually have openssl  
installed?

regards  
Jan K.

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**Author:** ![halfbyte](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@halfbyte](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/halfbyte)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl/186602/2 "2010-04-09T16:30:03Z")

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On Apr 9, 12:47 pm, Jan K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> program. I ran it, it told me, what is missing in my system and sugested  
> commands to fix it, all missing items were fixed after that, but this  
> openssl thing is still missing - tels me the instalator.
> 
> Any ideas how to tell to ruby / rails that I actually have openssl  
> installed?

Do you have the ruby ssl extension ? Depending on how you installed  
ruby you may not have this (particularly if at the time you installed  
ruby you didn’t have one of the prerequisites). If you installed ruby  
via your package management system then there’s usually a separate  
package with the ruby openssl extension

Fred