gem error: "OpenSSL is not available." on macOS Big Sur

[wfendler]

Using macOS Big Sur 11.5.2 (2019 MBP) I installed frum via homebrew, ran frum install 3.0.2, and tried installing a ruby gem (colorls) and received an error about OpenSSL not being available.

$ gem install colorls
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::Exception)
    OpenSSL is not available. Install OpenSSL and rebuild Ruby (preferred) or use non-HTTPS sources

I see that you can specify the OpenSSL directory but I'm not sure exactly how this should be used. If Big Sur has OpenSSL at /usr/bin/openssl should I be using that? Installing 3.0.2 with --with-openssl-dir=/usr/bin/openssl didn't work. I'm not sure what might be going wrong here.

The gem error says to install OpenSSL and rebuild Ruby. I'm able to install OpenSSL (brew install openssl) but I'm not sure how to rebuild ruby with frum.

Is something wrong here or is am I just missing some foundational Ruby knowledge here that is preventing me from getting this to work?

[TaKO8Ki]

@wfendler

Thank you for opening the issue! By default, frum uses OpenSSL installed via Homebrew. I tried installing Ruby with frum just now in case I've already installed OpenSSL with Homebrew. After that I was able to run gem install colorls successfully. If you want to solve your problem quickly, I think you should uninstall Ruby version 3.0.2 and reinstall it when you've already installed OpenSSL with Homebrew like the following.

$ brew install openssl
$ frum uninstall 3.0.2
$ frum install 3.0.2

Environment

macOS: macOS Bug Sur 11.5.1
OpenSSL: 1.1
Frum: 0.1.1
Ruby: 3.0.2

[wfendler]

@TaKO8Ki - Thanks, that was it! I could've sworn I tried it in that order at some point but I must've tried all combinations except that.