FYI: Heroku Cedar, pg, openssl, omniauth, troubles and a solution

Rails
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Hi guys,

I found a really nasty issue that affects people running on Heroku’s
cedar
stack. We are using Rails 3.1.rc5, pg 11, omniauth 2.6. Ruby is
1.9.2.180p

Basically there is an incompatibility between the http, pg and OpenSSL
modules which segfaults when making https calls, for example to log in
through twitter. Now pg is a required gem when using Heroku cedar stack
so
leaving that one out is not an option. What fixed this was to add the
following to my config.ru at the top:

require ‘pg’
require ‘openssl’

This ensures that pg is required before openssl and all is good now.

Hope this helps others in similar situations.

Best
Martin

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FWIW, I ran into this back on (I think) rc1 and had the problem locally
as well. There was a bug noted somewhere on the ruby bug tracker
relating to it - sorry I don’t have the url offhand. Thanks very much
for the fix - good to know!

Best Wishes,
Peter

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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Martin W.
[email protected]wrote:

require ‘pg’
require ‘openssl’

This ensures that pg is required before openssl and all is good now.

Hope this helps others in similar situations.

MARTIN!!

Thank you - this is exactly the kind of thing that our mailing list is
for.
Thank you for demonstrating exemplarily citizenship.

Graciously yours,
Curtis