While trying to add a new gem to my development machine I got the following error message.
Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3
read server certificate B: certificate verify failed
(https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.s3.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)
A quick Google search lead me to this GitHub thread on the rubygems repository: gem 2.0.3 Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org. Scrolling down through all the comments I eventually discovered a link to Use RVM to Fix SSL Certificates.
The gist of the article is under the Use RVM to Fix SSL Certificates heading part way through the article. It seems that recent versions of RVM have the ability to update SSL certificates.
Run this command to see the current status:
$ rvm osx-ssl-certs status all
Certificates for /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem: Old.
In my case the status was “Old”. Running this command updates the certificates:
$ rvm osx-ssl-certs update all
Updating certificates for /use/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem: Updating certificates in
'/usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem'.
Updated.
Rerunning the first command now shows everything up-to-date.
$ rvm osx-ssl-certs status all
Certificates for /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem: Up to date.
Now the gem install command that originally was getting the certificate error works.