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

Curl is invoked in .rvm/scripts/fetch, which by default will be in your home directory.

Edit this using your favourite text editor: for example,

 nano ~/.rvm/scripts/fetch

In lines 56 and 58 (may vary with other versions of RVM, of course) you'll see two lines which begin

 fetch_command="curl ...

Simply add -k after curl, save and try again.