# The ordinal 284 could not be located

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-ordinal-284-could-not-be-located/173723>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 13, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-ordinal-284-could-not-be-located/173723 "2009-08-13T22:18:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-ordinal-284-could-not-be-located/173723/1 "2009-08-13T22:18:39Z")

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At work I just switched over to a new computer, and when I did I tried  
to run some ruby scrips to update some fields on the database and I get  
the following error:

The ordinal 284 could not be located in the dynamic link library  
SSLEAY32.dll

The code does actually seem to run even though this error gets thrown -  
but I did get a rather unusual exit code (-1073741510) on the first run.  
Has anyone seem this error and what does it mean and is this something  
that I should worry about? The version of Ruby that I’m using is 1.8.6,  
and I’m sure if this matters but I have three version of Rails installed

- 2.1.0, 2.1.1, and 2.2.2, but I’m frozen at 2.1.0.

Thanks,

-S

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**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-ordinal-284-could-not-be-located/173723/2 "2009-08-13T22:22:23Z")

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Shandy N. wrote:

> The code does actually seem to run even though this error gets thrown -

Actually, I take that back, the code doesn’t seem to be running as  
intended.