Creating a new Rails app Segmentation Fault on Ruby 1.9.3

Ran across this one today. I was trying to create a new rails app on Ruby 1.9.3.

/Users/oldjosh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:799: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]

It turns out that if you don't compile 1.9.3 against openSSL from macports or some other non-apple source, you end up with a ruby that segfaults when it tries to do ssl. Thus bundler fails to fetch gems when you create a rails app. My fix was to reinstall 1.9.3 and specify where my macports openssl installation was.

$ rvm reinstall 1.9.3 --with-openssl-dir=/opt/local

RVM has another option to get around this if you don't have macports or some other alternative. See their docs for more info. And see the bug that helped me solve my problem.