Trying to install rails. Error1. no such file to load -- openssl Error 2. undefined method `invoke_with_build_args' for nil:NilClass

Question

I'm trying to get rails downloaded to my machine. I am pretty sure this is an older setup and am not sure what is wrong. I've been at this for hours. Whenever I type rails c I get...

Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest version, simply type:

    $ sudo gem install rails

You can then rerun your "rails" command.

Then I type what it says to type and get:

ERROR:  Loading command: install (LoadError)
        no such file to load -- openssl
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
    undefined method `invoke_with_build_args' for nil:NilClass

I explored this for a while and thought I didn't have openssl installed so I downloaded it and now when i type openssl i get a prompt that looks like "OpenSSL>" and when I type whereis openssl , I get usr/bin/openssl . Those two things lead me to believe that openssl is installed on my laptop but for some reason when I go to gem install rails I still get an error.

My ruby version is 1.8.7. This is the version the application I'm trying to gain access to was built in. I'm on a MacOS Mojave 10.14.16. If anyone has any tips or could point me in the right direction I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks

Answer 1

You have to install OpenSSL first and recompile ruby again:

RVM:

rvm pkg install openssl
rvm reinstall ruby-1.8.7 --with-gcc=gcc-4.7 --with-openssl-dir=$rvm_path/usr

please write complete name version of ruby-1.8.7