Question

Every now and then I’m encountering problems with scripts hosted on Github which have been linked using https. I’ve usually managed to get around it one way or the other, but I’m wondering what’s the proper way of solving this?

Here’s an example: I’d like to make use of this Rails Application template.

Running

rails new APP_NAME -m https://raw.github.com/RailsApps/rails3-application-templates/master/rails3-devise-rspec-cucumber-template.rb -T

will throw:

certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

What is the proper way of going about this situation without editing the script itself?

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UPDATE

I’ve tried so far as well

export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true

but I keep on getting the same error.

I also exported the certificate from Firefox as github.com.pem and simply dragged it into my unlocked Keychain Access. The certificate is now listed but the error remains the same.

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UPDATE 2

As awful this solution is, this hack works: http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2011/08/16/howto-use-a-rails-template-from-github-on-windows/

Answer 1

It seems that simply “updating” the certificates is the best option:

$ cd /usr/share/curl/
$ sudo wget http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
$ sudo mv curl-ca-bundle.crt old.curl-ca-bundle.crt
$ sudo mv cacert.pem curl-ca-bundle.crt