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How to use bundler behind a proxy?

I get the following output from the sudo bundle install command:

Fetching source index for `http://rubygems.org/`  
Could not reach rubygems repository `http://rubygems.org/`  
Could not find gem 'rspec-rails (>= 2.0.0.beta.22, runtime)' in any of the gem sources.

I have $http_proxy set correctly and I've added gem: --http-proxy=my proxy to ~/.gemrc. These settings are what allow my gem commands to work, and I was hoping they would translate to bundler, but no such luck.

Thinking sudo might not inherit my all of my environment, I also added those settings to my root user, but nada.

At this point bundler is preventing me from deploying my application, and I can find very few others running into this. If no one has an answer I will be forced to rip bundler out of my Rails app (which I wouldn't mind doing...)

Solution

  • OSX & Linux 

    export http_proxy=http://user:password@host:port
export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy

    If it's using HTTPS, set it as well

    export https_proxy=http://user:password@host:port
export HTTPS_PROXY=$https_proxy

    If you use sudo, by default sudo does not preserves http proxy variable. Use -E flag to preserve it

    $ sudo -E bundle install

    to make sudo preserves environment variables by default:

    https://memset.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/bash-http_proxy-from-a-user-environment-to-sudo-one/

    Windows

    As pointed by answers below, you can use SET instead

    SET HTTP_PROXY=http://user:password@host:port
SET HTTPS_PROXY=%HTTP_PROXY%