NameError: uninitialized constant Dropcam::Base::OpenSSL

[queuebit]

Wanted to get started using this to be able to turn my dropcam ON / OFF at certain times of the day.

When I go through the settings example in irb I get the following error after I run

Dropcam::Dropcam.new("USERNAME","PASSWORD")

NameError: uninitialized constant Dropcam::Base::OpenSSL

Is there another required gem that I am missing?

[nolanbrown]

The openssl gem is required and it appears it isn't installed on your machine. Try installing openssl and compile ruby with openssl support, which is pretty easy using RVM.

[queuebit]

I was able to get it working using https://rvm.io/packages/openssl/.

Thanks.

Now to setup a cron job to turn ON and OFF the dropcam to save from uploading video of an empty room.

[stevenhaddox]

Since this topic is still open I'll post here as I'm getting the same error with Ruby 2.0.0-p247:

$ ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-darwin12.5.0]

$ ./dropcam.rb
/Users/steven/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/dropcam-0.0.4/lib/dropcam/base.rb:138:in `_dropcam_http': uninitialized constant Dropcam::Base::OpenSSL (NameError)
    from /Users/steven/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/dropcam-0.0.4/lib/dropcam/base.rb:69:in `post'
    from /Users/steven/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/dropcam-0.0.4/lib/dropcam/session.rb:14:in `authenticate'
    from /Users/steven/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/dropcam-0.0.4/lib/dropcam.rb:11:in `initialize'
    from ./dropcam.rb:6:in `new'
    from ./dropcam.rb:6:in `<main>'

However, OpenSSL itself seems to be working with Ruby just fine:

$ irb
> require 'openssl'
=> true
> key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new 2048
=> #<OpenSSL::PKey::RSA:0x007fd0b137ae68>

Any other ideas what could be triggering this error?

[stevenhaddox]

By the way, this seems to be working fine with Ruby 1.9.3-p448. It's only 2.x that seems to be having issues.

[nolanbrown]

I'll take a look and see. The library was only tested with 1.9.3 and there may be some landmines with adding support for 2.x.

[stevenhaddox]

@nolanbrown understandable, I wouldn't sweat it too much. It's easy to set RBENV_VERSION as an ENV variable before running the script ;)

[radekw]

This fixed it for me:
#8