when working with Ruby in Ubuntu, I need to install libopenssl-ruby package. I would like to know what’s the purpose for this package. Is it a Ruby Gem?
when working with Ruby in Ubuntu, I need to install libopenssl-ruby package. I would
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when working with Ruby in Ubuntu, I need to install libopenssl-ruby package. I would like to know what’s the purpose for this package. Is it a Ruby Gem?
It is not a gem but an extension. Extensions can be packaged as gems, but this one is not.
An extension is a C library (may be mixed with some native ruby code) that allows to use some C API from the ruby language.
On my distribution, the openssl ruby extension is part of the ruby interpreter package:
And therefore the ruby package only requires the openssl library itself.
It looks like in Debian, they splitted this extension as a subpackage, and that is the reason why is required by the interpreter package: it is part of the ruby standard library: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/index.html