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OpenSSL and Ruby 1.8.7

I came across the error: no such file to load — openssl when compiling ruby 1.8.7 from source. The ubuntu apt package lib-openssl-ruby is currently not up to date enough to work with ruby 1.8.7

To fix this, you need to reconfigure and reinstall your ruby source package with openssl included. You can do this with the following command:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-openssl-dir=/usr --with-readline-dir=/usr --with-zlib-dir=/usr

Then do a make and make install

This has included openssl and you should no longer get the error!

Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect came out on the 23rd of this month, and is a much modified and improved version of the notorious Facebook Beacon.

It allows external sites to authenticate a user and share detailed information including friendships, albums and personal profiles through facebook.

It is facebooks alternative to OpenSocial (and a little bit of OpenID), and it is going to be huge!

If you want a Facebook Connect application, or a Facebook application written in Ruby on Rails or Merb, give us a call.