Developer tools issues when installing Ruby gems - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to install puma onto my MacOS 10.13.6. To install puma, I run the command gem install puma but it returned
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing puma:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
current directory: /Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/puma-3.12.0/ext/puma_http11
/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20180801-14654-17z0n88.rb extconf.rb
checking for BIO_read() in -lcrypto... *** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may
need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
--with-puma_http11-dir
--without-puma_http11-dir
--with-puma_http11-include
--without-puma_http11-include=${puma_http11-dir}/include
--with-puma_http11-lib
--without-puma_http11-lib=${puma_http11-dir}/lib
--with-openssl-dir
--with-openssl-include
--without-openssl-include=${openssl-dir}/include
--with-openssl-lib
--without-openssl-lib=${openssl-dir}/lib
--with-cryptolib
--without-cryptolib
/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/lib/ruby/2.5.0/mkmf.rb:456:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
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To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:
/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-17/2.5.0-static/puma-3.12.0/mkmf.log
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/puma-3.12.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-17/2.5.0-static/puma-3.12.0/gem_make.out`
The _mkmf.log_ can be found below...
clang -o conftest -I/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/include/ruby-2.5.0/x86_64-darwin17 -I/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/include/ruby-2.5.0/ruby/backward -I/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/include/ruby-2.5.0 -I. -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -I/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT -D_REENTRANT -O3 -Wno-error=shorten-64-to-32 -pipe conftest.c -L. -L/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/lib -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib -L. -L/Users/salem/.rbenv/versions/2.5.1/lib -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib -lruby.2.5.1-static -framework Foundation -lpthread -ldl -lobjc "
error: unable to open output file '~/tmp/conftest-8ad96a.o': 'No such file or directory'
1 error generated.
checked program was:
/* begin */
1: #include "ruby.h"
2:
3: int main(int argc, char **argv)
4: {
5: return 0;
6: }
/* end */
Xcode is installed on my Mac. I ran xcode-select --install which confirmed that Xcode was already installed.
I then thought it could be a permissions issue...
~ $ ls -lah tmp
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 3 salem staff 96B Jul 30 08:35 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 62 salem staff 1.9K Aug 1 13:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 salem staff 96B Jul 27 15:11 vmSWVyg
but it appears that it has the correct permissions set.
This issue also arises when installing nokugiri

Answer 1

You might want to install openssl, e.g. via homebrew:
brew install openssl
A similar issue was also discussed on github.
In case of nokogiri, libxml might be missing:
brew install libxml2