Operating System I am using is Mac OSX Mountain Lion.
First I will give some back story on how this cluster F started. I am going through a Ruby on Rails Web development book. I want to use PostgreSQL as my server. Before today I was using sqlite3. I downloaded PostgreSQL 9.1 from there website. I used the DMG installer. Once I was done with the install process it asked me to re-boot because of some sort of memory problem, I did that and it installed without error.
The problem started when I tried to use the “Rails Server” command in the terminal. This is what I got (I tried to strip out the unimportant stuff which would clutter everything up)
/Users/Chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@rails3tutorial2ndEd/gems/pg-0.12.2/lib/pg.rb:4:in `require': dlopen(/Users/Chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@rails3tutorial2ndEd/gems/pg-0.12.2/lib/pg_ext.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcrypto.dylib (LoadError)
Referenced from: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libpq.5.dylib requires version 1.0.0 or later, but libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib provides version 0.9.8 - /Users/Chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@rails3tutorial2ndEd/gems/pg-0.12.2/lib/pg_ext.bundle
...
from /Users/Chris/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194@rails3tutorial2ndEd/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands.rb:50:in
I have read through the out put and I have done a lot of Google searching, and what I have found is that it’s a problem with which version of libcrypto the server is fetching. Or something about the libssl. I have gone through the solutions on google and nothing seems to be working. Hopefully someone has had the same problem I have, and can help me.
Thanks in advance! -Chris
I really recommend you to use Homebrew to install postrgresql. It helps you to install all proper dependencies for version which correctly works with rails.
Do not forget to follow after install instructions from homebrew