“Certificate verify failed” OpenSSL error when using Ruby 1.9.3

Question

I\'m using Ruby 1.9.3p0 on Mac OS 10.6.8 (installed using rvm). When I attempt to create a new Rails application using an application template hosted on GitHub, with this (f

Answer 1

It could possibly be because of how you built 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 — maybe whatever tool you used to build each configured things slightly differently. Or maybe they use different versions of OpenSSL.

Here is the only potentially relevant change I could spot to Net:HTTP between 1.9.2 and 1.9.3

 require 'net/protocol'
-autoload :OpenSSL, 'openssl'
 require 'uri'
+autoload :OpenSSL, 'openssl'

(if you want to view the diff...)

git clone https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git
cd ruby
git diff origin/ruby_1_9_2 origin/ruby_1_9_3 -- http.rb