Certificate issue while trying to install MySQL gem

Question

I am getting the below error while trying to install MySQL gem.

Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (https://api.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)

What does it mean? How can I fix this?

Answer 1

I hope your have rvm. I updated the certificates. first

rvm get stable

then update the certificates

rvm osx-ssl-certs update all

or Alternatively you can also do

rvm rubygems latest

there are further here if this did not helped.