ruby-eth issues on MacOS

[angusmcleod]

This is just a note that when using the silkey ruby-sdk on MacOS you may encounter this error

FFI::NotFoundError: Function 'OPENSSL_init_ssl' not found in [libssl.dylib]

It arises from the ruby-eth usage of OpenSSL. Note that there is an active PR to replace OpenSSL: se3000/ruby-eth#43.

In the meantime, this solution worked for me: se3000/ruby-eth#47 (comment).

Yet to be seen what will be needed in other environments.

[DZariusz]

I had different issue but also related to OpenSSL. In my case it was just displaying Abort 6

This is how I fix it (based on se3000/ruby-eth#47)

# steps for fixing abort issue about ethereum.rb gem 

brew update & brew upgrade & brew install openssl
cd /usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib
cp libssl.1.1.dylib libcrypto.1.1.dylib /usr/local/lib/
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s libssl.1.1.dylib libssl.dylib
sudo ln -s libcrypto.1.1.dylib libcrypto.dylib

which ruby

gem install bundler
bundle config set path '.bundle'
bundle install

above solved my problem and now it is working fine.

but for sure I will be waiting for se3000/ruby-eth#43