title: Can't get 'rails new' to work
body: <p>I'm a n00b eager to get my hands on Ruby on Rails (OSX 10.7). But first I need to install it. Now I've spend 9 hours trying to get it to work but it always fails when I try to create a new project:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ rails new /Users/tom/Documents/14-Utveckling/WhichTerminal 
     exist  
  identical  README.rdoc
  identical  Rakefile
  identical  config.ru
  identical  .gitignore
   conflict  Gemfile
  Overwrite /Users/tom/Documents/14-Utveckling/WhichTerminal/Gemfile? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] Y
     force  Gemfile
     exist  app
  identical  app/assets/images/rails.png
  identical  app/assets/javascripts/application.js
  identical  app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
  identical  app/controllers/application_controller.rb
  identical  app/helpers/application_helper.rb
      exist  app/mailers
      exist  app/models
  identical  app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
  identical  app/mailers/.gitkeep
  identical  app/models/.gitkeep
      exist  config
   identical  config/routes.rb
  identical  config/application.rb
  identical  config/environment.rb
     exist  config/environments
  identical  config/environments/development.rb
  identical  config/environments/production.rb
  identical  config/environments/test.rb
      exist  config/initializers
  identical  config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb
  identical  config/initializers/inflections.rb
  identical  config/initializers/mime_types.rb
   conflict  config/initializers/secret_token.rb
  Overwrite /Users/tom/Documents/14-  Utveckling/WhichTerminal/config/initializers/secret_token.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] Y
      force  config/initializers/secret_token.rb
   conflict  config/initializers/session_store.rb
  Overwrite /Users/tom/Documents/14-Utveckling/WhichTerminal/config/initializers/session_store.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] Y
      force  config/initializers/session_store.rb
   conflict  config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb
   Overwrite /Users/tom/Documents/14-Utveckling/WhichTerminal/config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] Y
      force  config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb
      exist  config/locales
  identical  config/locales/en.yml
  identical  config/boot.rb
  identical  config/database.yml
      exist  db
   conflict  db/seeds.rb
  Overwrite /Users/tom/Documents/14-Utveckling/WhichTerminal/db/seeds.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] Y
     force  db/seeds.rb
     exist  doc
  identical  doc/README_FOR_APP
      exist  lib
      exist  lib/tasks
  identical  lib/tasks/.gitkeep
      exist  lib/assets
  identical  lib/assets/.gitkeep
      exist  log
  identical  log/.gitkeep
      exist  public
  identical  public/404.html
  identical  public/422.html
  identical  public/500.html
  identical  public/favicon.ico
  identical  public/index.html
  identical  public/robots.txt
      exist  script
  identical  script/rails
      exist  test/fixtures
  identical  test/fixtures/.gitkeep
      exist  test/functional
  identical  test/functional/.gitkeep
      exist  test/integration
  identical  test/integration/.gitkeep
      exist  test/unit
  identical  test/unit/.gitkeep
  identical  test/performance/browsing_test.rb
  identical  test/test_helper.rb
      exist  tmp/cache
      exist  tmp/cache/assets
      exist  vendor/assets/javascripts
  identical  vendor/assets/javascripts/.gitkeep
      exist  vendor/assets/stylesheets
  identical  vendor/assets/stylesheets/.gitkeep
      exist  vendor/plugins
  identical  vendor/plugins/.gitkeep
        run  bundle install
  Enter your password to install the bundled RubyGems to your system: 
  Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
  
  NoMethodError: private method `open' called for Gem::Package:Class
  An error occured while installing rake (0.9.2.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
  Make sure that `gem install rake -v '0.9.2.2'` succeeds before bundling.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>My theory:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I suspect it is the https access that is screwing up. <a href="http://railsapps.github.com/openssl-certificate-verify-failed.html" rel="nofollow">Some</a> say it is some problem with openssl.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ openssl version
  OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Apparently, the best answer is 'OpenSSL 1.0.1' but I have no clue how to update Openssl globally. Ignoring this I did reinstall ruby doing the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ rvm remove 1.9.3
  $ brew install openssl
  $ rvm install 1.9.3 --with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl`
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have no clue what brew does but it seems to install openssl and tuck it away in a directory somewhere. Anyway. Whatever I do I always end up with the same error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
  NoMethodError: private method `open' called for Gem::Package:Class
  An error occured while installing rake (0.9.2.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
  </code></pre>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>I reinstalled the whole chabang. Same result.
  Here is the log:</p>
  
  <p>Remove rvm</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ rvm implode
  [...]
  rvm has been fully removed. Note you may need to manually remove /etc/rvmrc and ~/.rvmrc if they exist still.
  $ gem uninstall rvm
  $ which ruby
  /usr/bin/ruby
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Installing RVM</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100  9248  100  9248    0     0   2403      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:-- 27939
  Downloading RVM from wayneeseguin branch stable
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100 1023k  100 1023k    0     0  85026      0  0:00:12  0:00:12 --:--:-- 94532
  
  Installing RVM to /Users/tom/.rvm/
      RVM PATH line found in /Users/tom/.bashrc /Users/tom/.zshrc.
      RVM sourcing line found in /Users/tom/.bash_login /Users/tom/.zlogin.
  
  # RVM:  Shell scripts enabling management of multiple ruby environments.
  # RTFM: https://rvm.io/
  # HELP: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=rvm (#rvm on irc.freenode.net)
  # Cheatsheet: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/rvm/
  # Screencast: http://screencasts.org/episodes/how-to-use-rvm
  
  # In case of any issues read output of 'rvm requirements' and/or 'rvm notes'
  
  Installation of RVM in /Users/tom/.rvm/ is almost complete:
  
    * To start using RVM you need to run `source /Users/tom/.rvm/scripts/rvm`
      in all your open shell windows, in rare cases you need to reopen all shell windows.
  
  # Tom Eriksen,
  #
  #   Thank you for using RVM!
  #   I sincerely hope that RVM helps to make your life easier and more enjoyable!!!
  #
  # ~Wayne
  
  
  rvm 1.13.8 (stable) by Wayne E. Seguin &lt;wayneeseguin@gmail.com&gt;, Michal Papis &lt;mpapis@gmail.com&gt; [https://rvm.io/]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Intalling Ruby 1.9.3 (with openssl 1.0.1)</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ rvm install 1.9.3 --with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl`
  Fetching yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz to /Users/tom/.rvm/archives
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100  460k  100  460k    0     0  65747      0  0:00:07  0:00:07 --:--:--  116k
  Extracting yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz to /Users/tom/.rvm/src
  Configuring yaml in /Users/tom/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4.
  Compiling yaml in /Users/tom/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4.
  Installing yaml to /Users/tom/.rvm/usr
  Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/tom/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
  
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #fetching 
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #downloading ruby-1.9.3-p194, this may take a while depending on your connection...
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100 9610k  100 9610k    0     0   193k      0  0:00:49  0:00:49 --:--:--  212k
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #extracting ruby-1.9.3-p194 to /Users/tom/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p194
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #extracted to /Users/tom/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p194
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #configuring 
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #compiling 
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #installing 
  Retrieving rubygems-1.8.24
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100  371k  100  371k    0     0   355k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  446k
  Extracting rubygems-1.8.24 ...
  Removing old Rubygems files...
  Installing rubygems-1.8.24 for ruby-1.9.3-p194 ...
  Installation of rubygems completed successfully.
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - adjusting #shebangs for (gem irb erb ri rdoc testrb rake).
  ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #importing default gemsets (/Users/tom/.rvm/gemsets/)
  Install of ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #complete 
  $ which ruby
  /Users/tom/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby
  $ which gem
  /Users/tom/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/gem
  $ which rails
  /usr/bin/rails
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Installing RubyGems just in case.
  Afer downloading RubyGems through GIT I move to the directory and run setup.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ cd /Users/tom/Library/Developer/rubygems 
  Toms-dator-2:rubygems tom$ ruby setup.rb 
  RubyGems 2.0.a installed
  
  
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
  RubyGems installed the following executables:
      /Users/tom/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/gem
  
  rubygems$ gem update --system
  Latest version currently installed. Aborting.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Installing json (it complains if I don't)</p>
  
  <pre><code>rubygems$ gem install json
  Fetching: json-1.7.3.gem (100%)
  Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
  Successfully installed json-1.7.3
  Installing ri documentation for json-1.7.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for json-1.7.3
  1 gem installed
  
  Rubygems$ which gem
  /Users/tom/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/gem
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Installing rails</p>
  
  <pre><code>Rubygems$ gem install rails
  Fetching: i18n-0.6.0.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed i18n-0.6.0
  Fetching: multi_json-1.3.5.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed multi_json-1.3.5
  Fetching: activesupport-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed activesupport-3.2.3
  Fetching: builder-3.0.0.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed builder-3.0.0
  Fetching: activemodel-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed activemodel-3.2.3
  Fetching: rack-1.4.1.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed rack-1.4.1
  Fetching: rack-cache-1.2.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed rack-cache-1.2
  Fetching: rack-test-0.6.1.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed rack-test-0.6.1
  Fetching: journey-1.0.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed journey-1.0.3
  Fetching: hike-1.2.1.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed hike-1.2.1
  Fetching: tilt-1.3.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed tilt-1.3.3
  Fetching: sprockets-2.1.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed sprockets-2.1.3
  Fetching: erubis-2.7.0.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed erubis-2.7.0
  Fetching: actionpack-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed actionpack-3.2.3
  Fetching: arel-3.0.2.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed arel-3.0.2
  Fetching: tzinfo-0.3.33.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed tzinfo-0.3.33
  Fetching: activerecord-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed activerecord-3.2.3
  Fetching: activeresource-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed activeresource-3.2.3
  Fetching: mime-types-1.18.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed mime-types-1.18
  Fetching: polyglot-0.3.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed polyglot-0.3.3
  Fetching: treetop-1.4.10.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed treetop-1.4.10
  Fetching: mail-2.4.4.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed mail-2.4.4
  Fetching: actionmailer-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed actionmailer-3.2.3
  Fetching: thor-0.14.6.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed thor-0.14.6
  Fetching: rack-ssl-1.3.2.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed rack-ssl-1.3.2
  Fetching: rdoc-3.12.gem (100%)
  Depending on your version of ruby, you may need to install ruby rdoc/ri data:
  
  &lt;= 1.8.6 : unsupported
   = 1.8.7 : gem install rdoc-data; rdoc-data --install
   = 1.9.1 : gem install rdoc-data; rdoc-data --install
  &gt;= 1.9.2 : nothing to do! Yay!
  Successfully installed rdoc-3.12
  Fetching: railties-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed railties-3.2.3
  Fetching: rails-3.2.3.gem (100%)
  Successfully installed rails-3.2.3
  Installing ri documentation for i18n-0.6.0
  Installing darkfish documentation for i18n-0.6.0
  Installing ri documentation for multi_json-1.3.5
  Installing darkfish documentation for multi_json-1.3.5
  Installing ri documentation for activesupport-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for activesupport-3.2.3
  unable to convert "\xF1" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for README, skipping
  unable to convert "\xF1" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for README.rdoc, skipping
  unable to convert "\xF1" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for test/performance.rb, skipping
  Installing ri documentation for builder-3.0.0
  Installing darkfish documentation for builder-3.0.0
  Installing ri documentation for activemodel-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for activemodel-3.2.3
  unable to convert "\x89" from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 for test/multipart/binary, skipping
  Installing ri documentation for rack-1.4.1
  Installing darkfish documentation for rack-1.4.1
  Installing ri documentation for rack-cache-1.2
  Installing darkfish documentation for rack-cache-1.2
  Installing ri documentation for rack-test-0.6.1
  Installing darkfish documentation for rack-test-0.6.1
  Installing ri documentation for journey-1.0.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for journey-1.0.3
  Installing ri documentation for hike-1.2.1
  Installing darkfish documentation for hike-1.2.1
  Installing ri documentation for tilt-1.3.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for tilt-1.3.3
  Installing ri documentation for sprockets-2.1.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for sprockets-2.1.3
  Installing ri documentation for erubis-2.7.0
  Installing darkfish documentation for erubis-2.7.0
  Installing ri documentation for actionpack-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for actionpack-3.2.3
  Installing ri documentation for arel-3.0.2
  Installing darkfish documentation for arel-3.0.2
  Installing ri documentation for tzinfo-0.3.33
  Installing darkfish documentation for tzinfo-0.3.33
  Installing ri documentation for activerecord-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for activerecord-3.2.3
  Installing ri documentation for activeresource-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for activeresource-3.2.3
  Installing ri documentation for mime-types-1.18
  Installing darkfish documentation for mime-types-1.18
  Installing ri documentation for polyglot-0.3.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for polyglot-0.3.3
  Installing ri documentation for treetop-1.4.10
  Installing darkfish documentation for treetop-1.4.10
  Installing ri documentation for mail-2.4.4
  Installing darkfish documentation for mail-2.4.4
  Installing ri documentation for actionmailer-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for actionmailer-3.2.3
  Installing ri documentation for thor-0.14.6
  Installing darkfish documentation for thor-0.14.6
  Installing ri documentation for rack-ssl-1.3.2
  Installing darkfish documentation for rack-ssl-1.3.2
  Installing ri documentation for rdoc-3.12
  Installing darkfish documentation for rdoc-3.12
  Installing ri documentation for railties-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for railties-3.2.3
  Installing ri documentation for rails-3.2.3
  Installing darkfish documentation for rails-3.2.3
  28 gems installed
  
  Rubygems$ which rails
  /Users/tom/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/rails
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Finally. Let's create a new project</p>
  
  <pre><code>Rubygems$ rails new /Users/tom/Documents/WhichTerminal 
         exist  
        create  README.rdoc
        create  Rakefile
        create  config.ru
     identical  .gitignore
        create  Gemfile
        create  app
        create  app/assets/images/rails.png
        create  app/assets/javascripts/application.js
        create  app/assets/stylesheets/application.css
        create  app/controllers/application_controller.rb
        create  app/helpers/application_helper.rb
        create  app/mailers
        create  app/models
        create  app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
        create  app/mailers/.gitkeep
        create  app/models/.gitkeep
        create  config
        create  config/routes.rb
        create  config/application.rb
        create  config/environment.rb
        create  config/environments
        create  config/environments/development.rb
        create  config/environments/production.rb
        create  config/environments/test.rb
        create  config/initializers
        create  config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb
        create  config/initializers/inflections.rb
        create  config/initializers/mime_types.rb
        create  config/initializers/secret_token.rb
        create  config/initializers/session_store.rb
        create  config/initializers/wrap_parameters.rb
        create  config/locales
        create  config/locales/en.yml
        create  config/boot.rb
        create  config/database.yml
        create  db
        create  db/seeds.rb
        create  doc
        create  doc/README_FOR_APP
        create  lib
        create  lib/tasks
        create  lib/tasks/.gitkeep
        create  lib/assets
        create  lib/assets/.gitkeep
        create  log
        create  log/.gitkeep
        create  public
        create  public/404.html
        create  public/422.html
        create  public/500.html
        create  public/favicon.ico
        create  public/index.html
        create  public/robots.txt
        create  script
        create  script/rails
        create  test/fixtures
        create  test/fixtures/.gitkeep
        create  test/functional
        create  test/functional/.gitkeep
        create  test/integration
        create  test/integration/.gitkeep
        create  test/unit
        create  test/unit/.gitkeep
        create  test/performance/browsing_test.rb
        create  test/test_helper.rb
        create  tmp/cache
        create  tmp/cache/assets
        create  vendor/assets/javascripts
        create  vendor/assets/javascripts/.gitkeep
        create  vendor/assets/stylesheets
        create  vendor/assets/stylesheets/.gitkeep
        create  vendor/plugins
        create  vendor/plugins/.gitkeep
           run  bundle install
  Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
  
  NoMethodError: private method `open' called for Gem::Package:Class
  An error occured while installing rake (0.9.2.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
  Make sure that `gem install rake -v '0.9.2.2'` succeeds before bundling.
  Rubygems$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Same result. What's wrong?</p>