How to recompile Ruby and OpenSSL?

Question

I'm currently setting up a server with no provisioning tool for production. The server is RHEL 6.5 and we're using Ruby 2.1.4. The server doesn't manage Rubies via rbenv or rvm.

The problem is that when I try to do a bundle install, I'm getting this OpenSSL issue.

Could not load OpenSSL.
You must recompile Ruby with OpenSSL support or change the sources in your
Gemfile from 'https' to 'http'. Instructions for compiling with OpenSSL
using RVM are available at http://rvm.io/packages/openssl.

In the Gemfile, we're using our own source for gems: source 'http://gems.ourhost.org/'.

I was wondering if someone already had the same problem. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

SSLv3 has been disabled in upstream OpenSSL, so I had to reinstall my ruby versions that don't have a patch for this with the patch that enables functioning with SSLv3 disabled. The patch is here. Here's what I did, using RVM (I know you said you don't use it, so you could just install ruby from source but patch this first):

wget https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/801e1fe46d83c856844ba18ae4751478c59af0d1.diff -O openssl.patch
rvm reinstall --patch openssl.patch 2.2.3

There's some more info on this github issue, as well as people reporting success with different versions.