I wrote a web-crawler today for one of my other projects, and ran into the above problem “OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed”, well I was just collecting websites and didn’t really care about the validity of SSL certificates, so I just wanted a quick fix. Here it is: require ‘openssl’ OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE Essentially, I just change the constant for V

