# Ruby 1.8.6 on AIX 5.3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-on-aix-5-3/147238>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 29, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-on-aix-5-3/147238 "2008-08-29T18:12:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@johnf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnf)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-on-aix-5-3/147238/1 "2008-08-29T18:12:08Z")

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I’m trying to get ruby/rails up and running on on an AIX 5.3 box. I’ve  
gone through the installation several times, and I’m getting very close.  
Ruby compiles, irb and simple ruby programs run, rubygems installs, as  
does the rails and mongrel gems. However, when I try to launch mongrel  
on an existing project, I get the “no such file to load – openssl”. I  
followed the instructions at the following site:

[http://homepage.mac.com/cjgibbons/rubyonaixhowto/x72.html](http://homepage.mac.com/cjgibbons/rubyonaixhowto/x72.html)

I have the openssl libraries in /opt/freeware, but for some reason ruby  
either doesn’t see them or won’t use them. The above tutorial was  
written for ruby 1.8.4, so does anyone have experience compiling and  
installing 1.8.6 on AIX 5.3?

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**Author:** ![johnf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@johnf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnf)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-6-on-aix-5-3/147238/2 "2008-09-03T17:24:55Z")

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For anyone curious, I had to update my gcc compiler and get the latest  
version of both the openssl and openssl\_dev rpms. Once I had all that  
installed, ruby, rails, and mongrel installed and worked without a  
hitch.

John Felix wrote:

> I’m trying to get ruby/rails up and running on on an AIX 5.3 box. I’ve  
> gone through the installation several times, and I’m getting very close.  
> Ruby compiles, irb and simple ruby programs run, rubygems installs, as  
> does the rails and mongrel gems. However, when I try to launch mongrel  
> on an existing project, I get the “no such file to load – openssl”. I  
> followed the instructions at the following site:
> 
> [http://homepage.mac.com/cjgibbons/rubyonaixhowto/x72.html](http://homepage.mac.com/cjgibbons/rubyonaixhowto/x72.html)
> 
> I have the openssl libraries in /opt/freeware, but for some reason ruby  
> either doesn’t see them or won’t use them. The above tutorial was  
> written for ruby 1.8.4, so does anyone have experience compiling and  
> installing 1.8.6 on AIX 5.3?