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I’m using RVM on my Ubuntu box. This way I can nicely install several Ruby and Rails versions next to each other. With Rails 3 however I had a little bit of trouble. When starting the server using

rails server

the server started fine, but as soon as I clicked “About your application’s environment”, I got this error on the console:

LoadError: no such file to load -- openssl

If you’re getting this too the first thing to check is whether these packages are installed:

• openssl
• libssl-dev
• libssl0.9.8

If they are and it anyway doesn’t work you want to go to the source code of your Ruby installation. In my case the source is in this path:

~/.rvm/src/ruby-1.8.7-p249

Now you cd to ext/openssl and run the following commands:

ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

After restarting WEBrick, everything was good:

For a more complete description on how to install Rails 3 on Ubuntu using RVM, checkout this blog post by Rohit Arondekar: Installing Rails 3.0 Beta 3 on Ubuntu using RVM

Here some good advises how to install Rails on Ubuntu 9.04: Installing Ruby on Rails on Debian/Ubuntu

After I finished the installation I created a new app and tried to start up the development server. That failed with below message:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/initializer.rb:159:in
`require_frameworks': no such file to load -- openssl (RuntimeError)

To fix this you need to install OpenSSL:

sudo apt-get install openssl
 
sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby

After that WEBrick started up without issues and served the standard welcome page.