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Find below the exact steps I took to resolve this SSL certificate verification failure on Windows.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fixing-sslconnect-error-on-windows\">Fixing SSL_connect error on Windows<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/ca\/cacert.pem\">cacert.pem file<\/a> and save this file to <code class=\"highlighter-rouge\">C:\\Rails\\Installer\\cacert.pem<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Open System in Control Panel<\/li>\n<li>Go to Advanced System Settings<\/li>\n<li>Click on Environment Variables<\/li>\n<li>Define a new System Variable with <code class=\"highlighter-rouge\">SSL_CERT_FILE=C:\\Rails\\Installer\\cacert.pem<\/code> as shown in screen-shot below<\/li>\n<li>Close and reopen your command prompt for allowing the changes to take place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/superdevresources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fix-ssl-connect-error-windows.png\" alt=\"SSL Certificate on Windows\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption\">Specifying SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows for Ruby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now we have the SSL certificate file defined permanently in our System settings. 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You should be able to install Jekyll as well as other Ruby gems such as Rouge, Bundle etc. In case you find the install command to be stuck for long time try running the following command to get a more verbose output.<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"highlighter-rouge\">gem install jekyll --debug -V<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Hope you found this post useful and will be able to setup Jekyll on your Windows machine. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Windows is my primary development machine, I did a setup of Jekyll by following this guide by &#8230; <a title=\"Fixing SSL_connect error while installing Ruby Gems on Windows\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/superdevresources.com\/ssl-error-ruby-gems-windows\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fixing SSL_connect error while installing Ruby Gems on Windows\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,219],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-software","tag-jekyll","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fixing SSL_connect error while installing Ruby Gems on Windows - Super Dev Resources<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As Windows is my primary development machine, I did a setup of Jekyll by following this guide by Julian Thilo. 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