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I recently needed to setup a Ruby on Rails server for one of our developers. Since he's usually setup his own Ruby environments in the past, this was a new procedure for me. Errors and troubles always come with learning something new and I was getting a "ruby no such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)" message when installing rubygems. I also encountered a "no such file to load -- openssl" when trying to start the rails server.

I've been doing a lot of work with Asterisk lately and have been having and issues A)getting the zaptel 1.4 module to compile and B) Zaptel module causing a CentOS 5.2 Xen server to crash on load.  After much searching and deciphering, here's what I had to do to get things working...