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

I had the same error. To fix just run the following commands (I know you've ran some but humor me):

brew update
brew install openssl
brew link openssl --force
brew install curl-ca-bundle

After that, open a new shell or source your files and all should be good to go :)

UPDATE:

To update your paths you'll need to edit your /etc/paths file so do something like:

sudo vim /etc/paths

In there is should look something like:

/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin

What you want to do is to ensure that /usr/local/bin is at the top of the file. So change it to something like:

/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

Hope that fixes it!