Ruby gem cucumber SSL error and Gem sources

Question

I was trying to install cucumber gem for Ruby. Although there were few topics somewhat related to this, I can\'t find exact question with exact answer. When on Windows I try

Answer 1

I had the same issue a while back after moving to ruby 2.0.0

Follow the following steps to solve it

1)Visit the url http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem save the contents as a .pem file(Do not save it as a text file.Make sure the extension is .pem)

2)Copy the file to any path in your local eg: C:\ruby200\ca_cert.pem (in my case)

3)Now add an Environment variable with Variable SSL_CERT_FILE and value "C:\ruby200\ca_cert.pem"(without quotes)(path is in my case.Replace with appropriate path) (Environment variables can be added by navigating to Computer -> Advanced Settings -> Environment Variables)

4)Close all your command prompts and restart them.Things should work fine now