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. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- 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 watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
