gem install cannot download from rubygems.org

Question

When I type

gem install sass

I get the following error message

C:>gem install compass ERROR: Could not

Answer 1

I also noticed issues with rubygems.org yesterday (in one environment), but your error almost sounds like an issue with a newly-installed Ruby and its SSL integration/configuration (having it locate SSL during installation, as well as the necessary certificates).

You might check out:

SSL Error When installing rubygems, Unable to pull data from 'https://rubygems.org/

But if that doesn't help I recommend continued searching, as this seems to be a common problem area.