# Ruby on Rails install problem in Linux Mint - please help a newbie

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/184217>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 26, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/184217 "2010-02-26T20:22:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![lavezarez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lavezarez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lavezarez)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/184217/1 "2010-02-26T20:22:23Z")

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Hi,

I have just started to study Ruby on Rails, downloaded Ruby 1.8.7, and  
compiled it from source, RubyGems 1.3.6, and ran “ruby setup.rb”, and  
installed Rails by “sudo gem install rails”

But when I do the following steps:  
rails path/to/your/new/application  
cd path/to/your/new/application  
ruby script/server

I can’t get the web server to start ☹ with the following message:

=\> Booting WEBrick  
=\> Rails 2.3.5 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/initializer.rb:  
271:in `require\_frameworks’: no such file to load – openssl  
(RuntimeError)

Appreciate your help on this!

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**Author:** ![lavezarez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lavezarez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lavezarez)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/184217/2 "2010-02-26T20:28:49Z")

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On Feb 26, 6:35 pm, lavezarez [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just started to study Ruby on Rails, downloaded Ruby 1.8.7, and  
> compiled it from source, RubyGems 1.3.6, and ran “ruby setup.rb”, and  
> installed Rails by “sudo gem install rails”

It looks like you don’t have the openssl ruby extension. This is  
probably because you didn’t have the openssl development headers  
around when you built ruby. Once you’ve got those you should be able  
to build the openssl extension (all the extensions are in the ext  
folder inside the ruby source folder)

Fred

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**Author:** ![lavezarez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@lavezarez](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lavezarez)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-install-problem-in-linux-mint-please-help-a-newbie/184217/3 "2010-03-01T00:38:26Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> On Feb 26, 6:35�pm, lavezarez [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have just started to study Ruby on Rails, downloaded Ruby 1.8.7, and  
> > compiled it from source, RubyGems 1.3.6, and ran “ruby setup.rb”, and  
> > installed Rails by “sudo gem install rails”
> 
> It looks like you don’t have the openssl ruby extension. This is  
> probably because you didn’t have the openssl development headers  
> around when you built ruby. Once you’ve got those you should be able  
> to build the openssl extension (all the extensions are in the ext  
> folder inside the ruby source folder)
> 
> Fred

you are correct, thanks for the advice. it is working now 🙂