jruby-openssl gem issue

While playing with the awesome Ruby-processing library recently, I had issue loading any rubygem inside the processing code. Whenever I would try to load one, it would throw this Jruby exception:

Exception in thread "Animation Thread" file:/*/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.4.0/gems/ruby-processing-1.0.8/lib/core/jruby-complete.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/site_ruby/shared/jruby/openssl/autoloads/ssl.rb:8: OpenSSL::SSL requires the jruby-openssl gem (LoadError)

After manually installing and removing the jruby-openssl gem, it still didnt fix the issue. As it turns out, the latest version, 0.0.6 wasn’t playing nice. So gem install jruby-openssl -v=0.0.3 did the trick. Just in case someone out there comes across similar issue. Also, since Ruby-processing requires rubygems to be installed as jruby gem, I decided to use rvm and installed jruby from it and installed the processing library and gems in that jruby environment. That way you won’t have to do some custom stuff for loading gems as mentioned here:

http://wiki.github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing/using-rubygems

Quick Update: After digging into the source code, I realized I could force it to use system jruby instead of the bundled one that comes with ruby-processing using –jruby flag. And that also fixed the jruby-openssl issue and dont have to use old version to make it work.

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