link_thumbnailer: OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError (SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A: sslv3 alert handshake failure)

I receive this error

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError (SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A: sslv3 alert handshake failure):

when running

LinkThumbnailer.generate("https://swiftcast.tv/screencasts/making-ios-apps-sexy")

Not sure if there are any settings in the initializer that would prevent the error. This is a little outside my area of expertise. Any suggestions or is this a real issue?

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  • Created 10 years ago
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  • Comments: 16 (7 by maintainers)

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Believe this will solve the problem. http://toadle.me/2015/04/16/fixing-failing-ssl-verification-with-rvm.html I haven’t tried it for this gem specifically, but I was getting a similar issue using geokit. Basically you need to update openssl and then install ruby in a specific way as stated by the post.

rvm install 2.2.3 --disable-binary