Why do I get "bad ecpoint" with OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError Stripe transaction?

Why do I get "bad ecpoint" with OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError Stripe transaction?

I am building a Rails application with stripe integrated. I have
everything setup except for when I try to carry out a transaction on my
local development environment. I get:
SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key exchange B: bad
ecpoint
I tried a lot of different things to get a valid SSL cert on my machine
but nothing seems to be working.
It isn't anything to do with my setup because it is working fine on a test
heroku server.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.