troubles with RVM and OpenSSL

Question

Trying to set up a new macbook for a colleague. Not going well.

First I install OpenSSL:

Heathers-MacBook-Pro:~ heather$ rvm pkg install openssl
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Answer 1

On MacOS 10.12.2 installing openssl via brew, won't work. To fix it, run:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

And then install Ruby via rvm.

EDIT: More information about the reason behind the problem here.