Found the problem after a bit of digging as somebody installing rails had what appeared to be the same issue.
Apparently there is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. To fix it I copied a cacert.pm from http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem and put it in my Ruby library. Next step is to point current command session to it: set SSL_CERT_FILE=C:\Ruby200\cacert.pem and then try again installing watir: gem install watir. Worked a treat, up and running with watir on this vm now, happy days! Thanks to original rails installer post: https://gist.github.com/fnichol/867550 On Friday, 1 November 2013 14:22:37 UTC, gary wrote: > > Hi all, Has anyone been having installation issues lately? I've used > watirbook instructions previously with no problems but the last few > attempts have failed when trying to install watir. Oddly I installed on 2 > windows 7 vm's 2 days ago without hitch, but i tried adding to another w7 > and a w8 vm yesterday with the following error: > > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError) > SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: > certif > icate verify failed ( > https://rubygems.global.ssl.fastly.net/quick/Marshal.4.8/co > mmonwatir-4.0.0.gemspec.rz) > > I then tried again today on W8 vm's with the same issue. Anyone else > encountered this? > > Regards, G > -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
