Bundle Install could not fetch specs from https://rubygems.org/

Question

I'm attempting to follow the Hartl Rails Tutorial, and having trouble with the bundler gem.

When using the commands 'bundle install' or 'bundle update' I get the following output:

Fetching source index from https://rubygems.org/

Could not fetch specs from https://rubygems.org/

I've searched for this output, but did not find many related issues online.

Maybe I have another gem that is interrupting bundler? I have little experience with rails at this point.

    source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.2.12'

group :development do
  gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.5'
end


# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '3.2.5'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '3.2.2'

  gem 'uglifier', '1.2.3'
end

gem 'jquery-rails', '2.0.2'

The solution for me was two parts: I changed https to http, and that temporarily solved the issue. The second issue was that I think I had a bad install of ruby 2.0.0 even though I was using a fresh install of ruby 1.9.3. So I reinstalled ruby 2.0.0, and I could use bundle install with https.

That means your ruby installation doesn't play with OpenSSL correctly. It's supposed to give a different kind of error, though, weird — enthrops
I did brew install openssl earlier today, could they have affected it? — Steven
I actually installed all of these from 'rvm requirements' "brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42 libtool pkg-config openssl readline libyaml sqlite libxml2 libxslt libksba" I'm new to this type of environment, and not sure if any of those would affect this. — Steven
Well, this depends on lots of things, depending on whether you use system ruby, rbenv, or rvm. And then there are flags to go along with installing ruby, certificates, and lots of other stuff. And then ruby 2.0 handles OpenSSL differently, so unless you want to deal with all that, just go with 'http://' in the Gemfile, although it's not secure — enthrops
Ah, I did accidentally install ruby 2.0 today while installing RVM. I did a clean install of Mac OS 10.8.2, installed X-code, then installed homebrew, then RVM, then Ruby 2.0, then Ruby 1.9.3. Then gcc42, and the other packages like openssl through brew. But come to think of it, I think Ruby 2.0 did not properly install, so I will reinstall that... — Steven

WebDragon WebDragon · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-12T05:18:50

Just in case none of the above satisfies the next intrepid explorer, I thought I'd drop here that after I spent 4 hours on this doing variants of the search that landed me here, I finally discovering that IPV6 was the culprit, after finding this specific thread on help.rubygems.org. Solution? this (Fedora, Linux):

sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1

set up a shell script to flip IPV6 on and off so I could run a command without it, and now everything runs peachy.

Bundle Install could not fetch specs from https://rubygems.org/

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