Curl Certificate Error when Using RVM to install Ruby 1.9.2

Question

RVM is running into a certificate error when trying to download Ruby 1.9.2. It looks like curl is having a certificate issue but I am not sure how to bypass it

Answer 1

If do not want to change the script AND you do not want to add a cert "for ever" to the cert bundle. There is a very nice and quick solution:

#to download the cert
wget http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
#to let curl use it for the next calls
export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=~/cacert.pem

Then run your script. To reset the environment variable (for subsequent script calls that should not use this cert) re-login to your system or unset the environment variable:

export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=