segfault about rubycas-client HOT 2 CLOSED

I tracked this down further into an issue with the MacPorts version of openssl; @1.0.0d; I was using rvm + ruby 1.8.7p174 compiled with the openssl

It turns out there were two versions/flavors installed - the stock openssl for OS X, and the one that got installed by MacPorts as a dependency from another MacPorts package (eg: curl)

From what I could tell, even though I've compiled ruby to be configured with a specific openssl package (eg: MacPorts or the one that's provided as a package via rvm, see: http://beginrescueend.com/packages/openssl/), when the code in rubycas-client executes, it ends up using another (possibly incompatible version that was installed on the system) - this is probably true for any gem that requires openssl running within Rails.

Uninstalling MacPorts completely and re-installing ruby fixed the issue. This time around ruby was compiled using the openssl package from rvm:

rvm package install openssl
rvm install 1.8.7-p174 --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr 

The package that comes from rvm has a newer version (0.9.8n) of the library than the one that comes with OS X ( vs 0.9.8l) - these two appear to be compatible with each other.

Reinstalling ruby configured with openssl the comes with OS X alone also works.

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Thank you for documenting your solution, this just saved me a huge headache!

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