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 'cocoapods' (>= 0), here is why:       Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0      state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz) 

first I tried

 rvm reinstall all --force 

then I tried

 brew upgrade openssl      ==> Upgrading openssl     ==> Downloading http://openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz     Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz     ==> perl ./Configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e --openssldir=/usr/local/etc/openssl zlib-dynamic shared d     ==> make     ==> make test     ==> make install MANDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e/share/man MANSUFFIX=ssl     ==> Caveats     To install updated CA certs from Mozilla.org:          brew install curl-ca-bundle      This formula is keg-only: so it was not symlinked into /usr/local.      Mac OS X already provides this software and installing another version in     parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.      The OpenSSL provided by OS X is too old for some software.      Generally there are no consequences of this for you. If you build your     own software and it requires this formula, you'll need to add to your     build variables:          LDFLAGS:  -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib         CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include      ==> Summary     🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e: 429 files, 15M, built in 5.1 minutes 

I then tried

openssl version 

and still(!) gets the older version

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 moshe-mbp:~ moshem$  

what am I doing wrong? how can I install the cocoapods gem?

thanks

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EDIT, trying @sean suggestion:

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew update Updated Homebrew from 672af665 to 10b4d426. ==> Updated Formulae bash        wireshark moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew install openssl Error: openssl-1.0.1e already installed moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew link openssl --force Linking /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e... 1139 symlinks created moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew install curl-ca-bundle Error: curl-ca-bundle-1.87 already installed moshe-mbp:~ moshem$  moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0), here is why:           Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz) 

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EDIT (2) after fixing issues with brew doctor

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0), here is why:           Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz) moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew update Updated Homebrew from 10b4d426 to 6a00bc3c. ==> Updated Formulae clozure-cl  python  python3 moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew install openssl Error: openssl-1.0.1e already installed moshe-mbp:~ moshem$  moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ echo $PATH /Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0@global/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/tools:/platforms:/platform-tools: moshe-mbp:~ moshem$  

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EDIT after altering the /etc/paths

I edited the /etc/path files to:

/usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin 

closed terminal completly and reopend and it still launches the old version of openssl!

why?

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ env $PATH env: /Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0@global/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/tools:/platforms:/platform-tools 

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EDIT, my bash_profile

source "`brew --prefix grc`/etc/grc.bashrc"  export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$PATH export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK/tools:$ANDROID_SDK/platforms:$ANDROID_SDK/platform-tools:$ANDROID_NDK"  [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function* 

BTW, the /etc/grc.bashrc doesn't seem to exist on my machine. both this line and the rvm line at the end were added by installed scripts

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EDIT

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ rvm pkg install openssl  Fetching openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz to /Users/moshem/.rvm/archives Extracting openssl to /Users/moshem/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c Configuring openssl in /Users/moshem/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c. Compiling openssl in /Users/moshem/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c. Installing openssl to /Users/moshem/.rvm/usr  Please note that it's required to reinstall all rubies:      rvm reinstall all --force  Updating openssl certificates moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013   moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem source -r http://rubygems.org/ http://rubygems.org/ removed from sources moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem source -a https://rubygems.org/ Error fetching https://rubygems.org/:     SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz) moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0) in any repository 

Answer 1

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

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