# Visual ruby: cannot load such file -- openssl

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/visual-ruby-cannot-load-such-file-openssl/218664>\
**Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\
**Created:** [April 7, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/visual-ruby-cannot-load-such-file-openssl/218664 "2012-04-07T16:28:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b77776/32.png) [@Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gurdipe_D)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/visual-ruby-cannot-load-such-file-openssl/218664/1 "2012-04-07T16:28:28Z")

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I just installed visual ruby, with ruby 1.9.3p125, but vr said:  
cannot load such file – openssl  
I had to copy /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/openssl.so into my  
$LOAD\_PATH.  
vr now works, but is this the correct library?

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**Author:** ![wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wybodekker)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/visual-ruby-cannot-load-such-file-openssl/218664/2 "2012-04-07T21:15:33Z")

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Hi Wybo:

I beleive that openssl is a part of ruby 1.9. Before, when I was using  
ruby 1.8.7 that installed with ubuntu, I had to install libopenssl-ruby  
like this:

$ sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby

But that hasn’t been necessary with version 1.9 because its already  
included. I think your problem occurred with your install of ruby. If  
1.9 is installed, this command should work in irb:

irb\>require ‘net/https’

That will test if it is installed correctly. It should return true.

Perhaps others know more than I do.

Thank you very much for your feedback. Please let me know if you have  
any more trouble.

Yours,  
Eric

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**Author:** ![wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wybodekker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wybodekker)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/visual-ruby-cannot-load-such-file-openssl/218664/3 "2012-04-09T14:40:23Z")

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Hi Eric,

Yes, I finally found out that it was libssl-dev that was missing.  
Thanks!