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

Try using http://rubygems.org/ (without SSL) as a source — that fixed the error for me.

gem source -r https://rubygems.org/
gem source -a http://rubygems.org/
gem install cocoapods