From: "prijutme4ty (Ilya Vorontsov)" Date: 2013-03-21T02:19:48+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:53579] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8124] gem fails to install valid gems Issue #8124 has been updated by prijutme4ty (Ilya Vorontsov). I periodically have similar but not the same issue. >gem install rails ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'rails' (>= 0), here is why: Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A (https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz) ERROR: Possible alternatives: rails gem sources shows me https://rubygems.org I work with Windows system, ruby both version 1.9.3p0, 2.0.0p0, gem version 2.0.3, OpenSSL 1.0.1e(11 Feb 2013) For example I get this issue when trying to install rails. gem update also doesn't affect rails gem (while many other gems updated properly) ---------------------------------------- Bug #8124: gem fails to install valid gems https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8124#change-37773 Author: artagnon (Ramkumar Ramachandra) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: 2.0.0p0 I'm not able to reproduce this, but many people have reported it on occasion. $ gem install bundler ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'bundler' (>= 0) in any repository ERROR: Possible alternatives: bundler Can anyone confirm this? -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/