Passenger (mod-rails) can't find libopenssl-ruby

Trying to build an nginx server with Phusion Passenger on Ubuntu 11.10 (hurray for the new version!). Running "passenger-install-nginx-module" outputs the following error:

* OpenSSL support for Ruby... not found

With the following suggestion to fix it:

* To install OpenSSL support for Ruby: Please run apt-get install libopenssl-ruby as root.

Running "sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby" yields the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libruby' instead of 'libopenssl-ruby'
libruby is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

A little research shows that libruby is a virtual package that provides libopenssl-ruby as part of the package. However, the passenger-install-nginx-module script still can't find it, and keeps throwing the same error. Help me, please! I'm in a little over my head on this one, and the google-the-error-code method that usually works is failing me today.

2 Answers

You need to change to your ruby ext/openssl/ directory, then run

ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

then try passenger-install-nginx-module again

No. I got so mad at Ubuntu that I switched to Windows 7. I realized that I was spending more time setting up tools than I was actually producing code. I've since moved on to other projects, and still only use Windows 7.