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After installing the aws-s3 gem on Ubuntu, I wasn't able to load it:

$: irb
>> require 'rubygems'
=> true
>> require 'aws/s3'
LoadError: no such file to load -- openssl

I thought it was because I just didn't have openssl installed. So I installed it:

$: sudo apt-get install openssl

Still not working. So I installed...

$: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Still not working. Turns out I needed...

$: sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby

Bingo!

$: irb
>> require 'rubygems'
=> true
>> require 'aws/s3'
=> true

Thomas: rake justins:face:off

I was having some strange errors in TextMate when trying to run commands that relied on ruby. I had installed ruby and gem with MacPorts, and /opt/local/bin was in my $PATH, but I still got things like this:

`require': No such file to load -- rubygems (LoadError)

Adding this to my .profile seemed to fix it:

export TM_RUBY=/opt/local/bin/ruby

Hopefully this won't be necessary after upgrading to OS X 10.5, as it comes with an up-to-date version of ruby and gem built right in.

Thomas: *args!
Thomas: Brilliant!
Justin: it is wonderful
Thomas: Or as I like to call it... Stargs!