Cocoapods: Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPods/Specs specs repo

Question

When running pod repo update the following error is generated:

Updating spec repo `master`
[!] Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPo         


        

Answer 1

A slightly simpler solution from Adem's that doesn't use rbenv:

brew install openssl
brew upgrade openssl
brew install ruby
brew link --overwrite ruby

Finally, make sure you don't have your PATH variable set to have /usr/local/bin after $PATH. Your PATH export in ~/.bash_profile should look similar to this:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH