Heroku gem not working with RVM - ruby

Question

I'm following the Ruby on Rails tutorial at http://railstutorial.org/chapters/beginning#sec:1.4.1, and all is going well until I tried to get my app going on Heroku.
I installed heroku, that worked fine, but now when I run heroku keys:add or any other heroku command, I get the following error:
/home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/gems/rest-client-1.4.2/lib/restclient.rb:9:in `rescue in <top (required)>':
no such file to load -- net/https. Try running apt-get install libopenssl-ruby (LoadError)
from /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/gems/rest-client-1.4.2/lib/restclient.rb:5:in `<top (required)>'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/gems/rest-client-1.4.2/lib/rest_client.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/gems/heroku-1.9.14/lib/heroku/client.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/gems/heroku-1.9.14/lib/heroku.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from <internal:lib/rubygems/custom_require>:29:in `require'
from /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/gems/heroku-1.9.14/bin/heroku:6:in `<top (required)>'
from /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/bin/heroku:19:in `load'
from /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/bin/heroku:19:in `<main>'
I did what the error message said, and installed libopenssl-ruby, but heroku still didn't work.
I've done a search and found the following two pages which try to combat the heroku errors:
http://www.mail-archive.com/heroku#googlegroups.com/msg05001.html
http://blog.project-sierra.de/archives/1534
I followed the instructions on these pages (which are the same), but heroku still doesn't work.
I usually do my work on windows, so everything is a bit new to me on ubuntu. Here's my ruby environment:
RubyGems Environment:
- RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
- RUBY VERSION: 1.9.2 (2010-08-18 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]
- INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial
- RUBY EXECUTABLE: /home/sirswap/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin/ruby
- EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial/bin
- RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
- ruby
- x86-linux
- GEM PATHS:
- /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#rails3tutorial
- /home/sirswap/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p0#global
- GEM CONFIGURATION:
- :update_sources => true
- :verbose => true
- :benchmark => false
- :backtrace => false
- :bulk_threshold => 1000
- REMOTE SOURCES:
- http://rubygems.org/
I'm running ubuntu 10.04.
Any help or advice for next steps would be much appreciated :)

Answer 1

I experienced the same problem, and I think it was caused by not installing all the ruby dependencies listed when you run:
$rvm requirements # it was earlier: rvm notes
Specifically, I executed [be sure to install aptitude first]:
$sudo aptitude install build-essential bison openssl libreadline5 libreadline5-dev curl git zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev
and after all that, I recompiled my ruby install (using $rvm reinstall 1.9.2) and heroku worked like a charm.

Answer 2

Hey :)
Don't know if it's still relevant or whether this will work for you as well.. it did for me.
Had the exact same problem..
I also noticed when doing
$ rails console
I was getting errors which indicated I had problems with Readline.
Following http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/packages/readline/ helped me fix all issues I was experiencing.

Answer 3

I blew many hours on this yesterday. Eventually, somewhat by chance (actually more like sheer desperation), I looked in the file /usr/bin/heroku
I noticed the first line of the script said
#!/usr/bin/env ruby1.9.1
I changed this to
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
and it started working. After re-installing ruby about 10 times and all that mucking around with openssl. rolleyes

Answer 4

I'm also doing the Railstutorial on Ubuntu 10.10 and got the exact same error while trying to add Heroku keys. This solves it:
$ rvm remove 1.9.2
$ rvm pkg install openssl
$ rvm install 1.9.2 -C --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr

Answer 5

Read my directions on how to install RVM on Linux. You need to install libssl-dev or things like net/https won't work. It's OK though, just install that and recompile your rubies.

Answer 6

In your case "recompiling your rubies" can probably be done by issuing:
rvm install
Or alternatively you might make some progress by manually recompiling the openssl extension:
cd /home/sirswap/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p0/ext/openssl
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

Answer 7

Please reinstall ruby. I was same problem and fixed by reinstalling ruby.
rvm reinstall ruby 1.9.2