http://www.jessirae.com/blog/articles/2007/03/11/installing-openssl-on-ubuntu en-us 40 If you have tried to install Mechanize or any gem that requires openssl on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067232993X?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=classroommovi-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=390957&#38;creativeASIN=067232993X">Ubuntu</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=classroommovi-20&#38;l=as2&#38;o=1&#38;a=067232993X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> or Debian, you may have encountered the following error&#8230; <blockquote> <p>LoadError: no such file to load&#8212;openssl</p> </blockquote> <p>despite the fact that you have installed openssl with &#8220;gem install libopenssl-ruby&#8221;.</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/90083">this thread</a>, I found out that in order to install openssl, you have to tell ruby how to compile the openssl extension, like this&#8230;</p> <pre><code>cd /ruby-1.8.4/ext/openssl ruby extconf.rb make make install</code></pre> Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:25:00 -0500 urn:uuid:abdfc916-13cd-4918-bac5-f27f8b2ca23f Jessica http://www.jessirae.com/blog/articles/2007/03/11/installing-openssl-on-ubuntu ruby & rails mechanize install make openssl ruby ubuntu debian http://www.jessirae.com/blog/articles/trackback/12692