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Banged my head against this for a while. Starting a new rails project, trying to get rails.js from github, but it’s failing every time:

SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

So (after a lot of googling) I opened up gems/jquery-rails-0.2.7/lib/generators/jquery/install/install_generator.rb and added this just after the beginning of the InstallGenerator class (“class InstallGenerator < ::Rails::Generators::Base”) :

require ‘openssl’

OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE