gem install fails with openssl failure

Question

I tried to install cocoapods (http://cocoapods.org/) on my OSX Mountain Lion.

 moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods
 ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem          


        

Answer 1

Current release of rvm does a lot better job handling this things, run:

rvm get head
rvm reload
rvm autolibs enable
rvm reinstall 1.9.3 --disable-binary

Make sure to follow any displayed instructions - it's all there to help you.

Answer 2

If you are in China

Answer 3

This is fixed by avoiding https and using the insecure http instead. Running this worked for me.

gem source -a http://rubygems.org/

Answer 4

I fixed it by only appending to the PATH variable in my ~/.bash_profile, which in my case meant changing

export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
export PATH=$M2:$PATH
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

to

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin"
export PATH=$PATH:$M2
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

In terminal, type nano ~/.bash_profile to start editing.

Answer 5

Try using http://rubygems.org/ (without SSL) as a source — that fixed the error for me.

gem source -r https://rubygems.org/
gem source -a http://rubygems.org/
gem install cocoapods

Answer 6

You can try to update OpenSSL from source instead:

curl -L -O http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1b.tar.gz.asc
curl -L -O http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1b.tar.gz
gpg --verify openssl-1.0.1b.tar.gz.asc
tar xvzf openssl-1.0.1b.tar.gz
cd openssl-1.0.1b
perl ./Configure shared zlib --prefix=/opt/local darwin64-x86_64-cc
make
make test
sudo make install

source