Ruby On Rails: no such file to load -- openssl (MissingSourceFile)

I was starting up a rails 2.3.8 project and got stuck in a problem, the console showed me the following error ...

`require': no such file to load -- openssl (MissingSourceFile)

I tried a lot to resolve this issue and finally i got a link while googling for the problem ... So here is the solution :-

There was need of ruby 1.8.7-p299. Earlier versions don't compile against openssl 1.0.0 without patching.

Here is the link to download the ruby 1.8.7-p299

ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p299.tar.gz

Steps :-

Untar the file ruby-1.8.7-p299.tar.gz

Go inside the directory ruby-1.8.7-p299/ext/openssl/

Run => ruby extconf.rb --with-openssl-include=/usr/local/ssl/include --with-openssl-lib=/usr/local/ssl/lib

make

make install

cd ../..

(Note:- You will come back to the directory ruby-1.8.7-p299)

then run the following command :-

./configure

make

make install

Hope it will resolve your problem .... Cheers :-)