can not install ruby-1.8.7-p249 on rvm

Question

$ rvm install ruby-1.8.7-p249
Installing Ruby from source to: /home/sayuj/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p249, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...

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Answer 1

Be sure to install ruby with rvm and giving the open-ssl-dir explicitly like this:

rvm cleanup
rvm install ruby-1.8.7 --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr