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 fixed it by only appending to the PATH variable in my ~/.bash_profile, which in my case meant changing

export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
export PATH=$M2:$PATH
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

to

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin"
export PATH=$PATH:$M2
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

In terminal, type nano ~/.bash_profile to start editing.