Activemerchant SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3

Question

I'm getting this error when creating new Paypal notification with active merchant

class PaymentNotificationsController < ApplicationController
  include ActiveMerchant::Billing::Integrations

  protect_from_forgery except: :create

  def create
    notify = Paypal::Notification.new(request.raw_post)

A OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError occurred in payment_notifications#create: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed /home/user/.rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p353/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:918:in `connect'

• Activemerchant version: 1.47.0
• Ruby version: ruby 2.0.0p598 (2014-11-13 revision 48408) [x86_64-linux]
• Rails version: 3.2.16
• Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
• Openssl version: OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Couple things:

1. make sure your certificates are up to date on your machine.

2. this has gotten me around this error before: https://github.com/stevegraham/certified

Good luck. Hope this helps.