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          


        

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/