gem install fails with openssl failure

I tried to install cocoapods (http://cocoapods.org/) on my OSX Mountain Lion.

 moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods
 ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0), here is why:
      Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0      state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)

first I tried

 rvm reinstall all --force

then I tried

 brew upgrade openssl

    ==> Upgrading openssl
    ==> Downloading http://openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz
    Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/openssl-1.0.1e.tar.gz
    ==> perl ./Configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e --openssldir=/usr/local/etc/openssl zlib-dynamic shared d
    ==> make
    ==> make test
    ==> make install MANDIR=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e/share/man MANSUFFIX=ssl
    ==> Caveats
    To install updated CA certs from Mozilla.org:

        brew install curl-ca-bundle

    This formula is keg-only: so it was not symlinked into /usr/local.

    Mac OS X already provides this software and installing another version in
    parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.

    The OpenSSL provided by OS X is too old for some software.

    Generally there are no consequences of this for you. If you build your
    own software and it requires this formula, you'll need to add to your
    build variables:

        LDFLAGS:  -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
        CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include

    ==> Summary
    🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e: 429 files, 15M, built in 5.1 minutes

I then tried

openssl version

and still(!) gets the older version

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ 

what am I doing wrong? how can I install the cocoapods gem?

thanks

EDIT, trying @sean suggestion:

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew update
Updated Homebrew from 672af665 to 10b4d426.
==> Updated Formulae
bash        wireshark
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew install openssl
Error: openssl-1.0.1e already installed
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew link openssl --force
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e... 1139 symlinks created
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew install curl-ca-bundle
Error: curl-ca-bundle-1.87 already installed
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ 
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0), here is why:
          Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)

EDIT (2) after fixing issues with brew doctor

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0), here is why:
          Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew update
Updated Homebrew from 10b4d426 to 6a00bc3c.
==> Updated Formulae
clozure-cl  python  python3
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ brew install openssl
Error: openssl-1.0.1e already installed
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ 
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ echo $PATH
/Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0@global/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/tools:/platforms:/platform-tools:
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ 

EDIT after altering the /etc/paths

I edited the /etc/path files to:

/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

closed terminal completly and reopend and it still launches the old version of openssl!

why?

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ env $PATH
env: /Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0@global/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p0/bin:/Users/moshem/.rvm/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/git/bin:/tools:/platforms:/platform-tools

EDIT, my bash_profile

source "`brew --prefix grc`/etc/grc.bashrc"

export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:$PATH
export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK/tools:$ANDROID_SDK/platforms:$ANDROID_SDK/platform-tools:$ANDROID_NDK"

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*

BTW, the /etc/grc.bashrc doesn't seem to exist on my machine. both this line and the rvm line at the end were added by installed scripts

EDIT

moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ rvm pkg install openssl 
Fetching openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz to /Users/moshem/.rvm/archives
Extracting openssl to /Users/moshem/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c
Configuring openssl in /Users/moshem/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c.
Compiling openssl in /Users/moshem/.rvm/src/openssl-1.0.1c.
Installing openssl to /Users/moshem/.rvm/usr

Please note that it's required to reinstall all rubies:

    rvm reinstall all --force

Updating openssl certificates
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013


moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem source -r http://rubygems.org/
http://rubygems.org/ removed from sources
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem source -a https://rubygems.org/
Error fetching https://rubygems.org/:
    SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad ecpoint (https://rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)
moshe-mbp:~ moshem$ gem install cocoapods
ERROR:  Could not find a valid gem 'cocoapods' (>= 0) in any repository

Solution 1:

This is fixed by avoiding https and using the insecure http instead. Running this worked for me.

gem source -a http://rubygems.org/

Solution 2:

rvm osx-ssl-certs update all

did the trick for me, ruby 2.0.0

Solution 3:

Try using http://rubygems.org/ (without SSL) as a source — that fixed the error for me.

gem source -r https://rubygems.org/
gem source -a http://rubygems.org/
gem install cocoapods