How to get Ruby Gems to work behind the corporate firewall

By MattK | Published: October 14, 2008

This is just a note to remind me.  Ruby and ruby gems don’t automatically pick up on your proxy information in IE.  Instead, find out the proxy and set the following environment variables.

in windows:  set http_proxy=http://user:password@internalcorporateproxy.com

in cygwin/unix: export http_proxy http://user:password@internalcorporateproxy.com

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2 Comments

  1. Nate
    Posted October 16, 2008 at 11:12 am | Permalink

    I believe that you also want the port at the end of it. So, something like export http_proxy=user:password@internalcorporateproxy.com:8080

    –Nate

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  2. MattK
    Posted October 20, 2008 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    very true nate.

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