Homebrew refusing to link OpenSSL

Question

I\'m on: OSX 10.11.6, Homebrew version 0.9.9m OpenSSL 0.9.8zg 14 July 2015

I\'m trying to play with with dotnetcore and by following their instructions,

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Answer 1

If migrating your mac breaks homebrew:

I migrated my mac, and it unlinked all my homebrew installs - including OpenSSL. This broke gem install, which is how I first noticed the problem and started trying to repair this.

After a million solutions (when migrating to OSX Sierra - 10.12.5), the solution ended up being comically simple:

brew reinstall ruby
brew reinstall openssl