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

Current release of rvm does a lot better job handling this things, run:

rvm get head
rvm reload
rvm autolibs enable
rvm reinstall 1.9.3 --disable-binary

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