How to use bundler behind a proxy?

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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...)

Hi, dont suppose you got this working? I seem to have the same error on OSX :( — Chris Kimpton, Jan 19 '11 at 13:29
No, I've never gotten it working. I have since stripped out Bundler from my app and am loading gems manually in config/application.rb. I can hardly tell the difference. — bioneuralnet, Feb 02 '11 at 16:25
I am also facing this issue. gem works http_proxy is set in my .profile and .gemrc, as explained in the original post On OSX, ruby 1.8.7, rubygems 1.3.7 Any ideas would be welcome :) — user537339, Dec 21 '10 at 04:07

ahmy · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-30T10:00:28.327

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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%

edited Nov 30 '18 at 10:00

answered Dec 21 '10 at 06:03

ahmy

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Good guess, but that's not it either. – bioneuralnet Dec 23 '10 at 20:12
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As of (at least) bundler 1.0.12 this seems to work. Perhaps they fixed something? – bioneuralnet Sep 16 '11 at 14:53
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it worked for me in windows box, by doing exactly same thing with "SET" command , eg `SET http_proxy=http://user:password@host:port ` and worked in cygwin too :) – awsbz77 Apr 20 '12 at 15:40
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ahmy's answer is the correct one. But if your username or password include special characters such as "<" or ">" (others may cause problems as well) gem will not work. Make sure to remove any of these characters (by changing your password/username) then export again. If anyone has a workaround for these characters please reply as well. – cameleon Oct 08 '12 at 22:12
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do no forget to set https_proxy – user831217 Feb 12 '15 at 11:25
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"by default sudo does not preserve http proxy." - Really important note. :) Thank you. – Gergely Bacso Oct 07 '15 at 08:47
It worked for me on openSUSE Leap 15.0, with Ruby v2.5.0, gem v2.7.3, and Bundler v1.16.1. I've made a shell script that does `export http_proxy=...` and `export https_proxy=...` before invoking `bundle install`. As @user831217 pointed out on another comment, don't forget to set `https_proxy` too. – Antônio Medeiros Nov 12 '18 at 11:52

Jarl · Answer 2 · 2011-08-18T07:11:42.310

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I figured out that also setting HTTP_PROXY (in addition to http_proxy) made a positive difference, i.e. it worked for me. So assuming that you have set up http_proxy environment variable correct, try (if you are using bash)

export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy

and then also use the -E option to sudo (to preserve environment variables), so

sudo -E bundle install

Jarl

edited Aug 18 '11 at 07:11

answered Aug 15 '11 at 09:02

Jarl

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This is what fixed it for me. Puzzling that bundler seems to be the only one to use this variable. – UberAlex Oct 16 '12 at 13:06
Also worked for me exporting the upper case HTTP_PROXY rather than lower case. – Jeff May 22 '14 at 15:42

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 03 '12 at 09:12

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If you don't want to set a global variable in the system you can edit ~/.gemrc and write it like that

---
:benchmark: false
:verbose: true
:sources:
- http://rubygems.org/
- http://gems.rubyforge.org
:backtrace: false
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:update_sources: true
gem: --http-proxy=http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@ADDRESS:PORT

answered Sep 03 '12 at 09:12

coorasse

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Unfortunately bundler ignores that. – bioneuralnet Sep 07 '12 at 21:18

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 28 '12 at 12:54

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to get bundler behind a proxy on win XP/7 I needed to do the following:

I added http_proxy to the Environment Variables

My Computer
Advanced system settings
Advanced Tab Environment
Variables
New
Variable name = http_proxy
Variable value = MY_PROXY
Click Ok

Change MY_PROXY to whatever yours is.

this worked for bundler. The .gemrc proxy setting only worked for gems.

thanks Jamie

answered Sep 28 '12 at 12:54

Jamie.Good

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Instead of doing it on the Environment, I just added it before calling bundle, using `SET HTTP_PROXY=http://username:password@www.proxy.com` – Montolide May 06 '13 at 17:34
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i would prefer more flexible and securable way: SET /P login="Enter proxy login: " SET /P password="Enter proxy password: " SET HTTP_PROXY=http://%login%:%password%@proxy.com:8080 SET HTTPS_PROXY=%HTTP_PROXY% CLS – vladimir Aug 25 '15 at 11:31

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 25 '15 at 11:34

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probably more flexible and securable use batch file:

SET /P login="Enter proxy login: "
SET /P password="Enter proxy password: "
SET HTTP_PROXY=http://%login%:%password%@proxy.com:8080
SET HTTPS_PROXY=%HTTP_PROXY%

CLS

bundle install

answered Aug 25 '15 at 11:34

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Like the idea, but this doesn't work with special characters in the password :/ – Daniel Nov 12 '18 at 16:41

matttyg · Answer 6 · 2010-10-21T11:14:42.913

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You can download the required gems locally with gem install and then bundle install. Not exactly neat, I know, but it does work.

edited Oct 21 '10 at 11:14

answered Oct 21 '10 at 10:49

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 14 '15 at 07:14

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Windows OS, run following command before execute bundle install

SET http_proxy=http://user:password@host:port

answered Jun 14 '15 at 07:14

Jerry Z.

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 26 '15 at 13:26

$ export http_proxy="http://username:password@host:port"
$ export ftp_proxy="http://username:password@host:port"
$ sudo visudo

Add this line in the file:

Defaults env_keep = "http_proxy ftp_proxy"

Above this line:

Defaults        env_reset

then run your command as sudo it will work.

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

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 15 '10 at 04:57

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Make sure your OS default http_proxy is already set up. If you're using Linux try the following command to know which proxy it's pointing to.

echo $http_proxy

In my Ubuntu OS, I set my http_proxy environment variable to my proxy server in ~/.bashrc

answered Oct 15 '10 at 04:57

rasyadi

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Yes, that works for many things, but as I stated, Bundler seems to ignore it. – bioneuralnet Oct 15 '10 at 17:20

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 14 '16 at 20:44

I am running Ubuntu. The $http_proxy variable is set, but it doesn't work with a couple items. One of those items being gem.

If you put the following in your ~/.gemrc it will work.

http_proxy: proxy-url:port

Replace the proxy-url:port with your proxy address and port. After I added that, I ran "bundle install" and everything ran as expected.

Developer Marius Žilėnas · Answer 11 · 2017-11-08T13:55:24.560

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To have command bundle install work with proxy on windows do the following:

Edit file .gemrc. Open windows command line and type: notepad %userprofile%\.gemrc .
The file .gemrc is open in notepad. Type on a new line http_proxy: http://username:passwordEncodedWithUrlencode@proxyaddress:proxyport . Password should be encoded with urlencode .
Close the file .gemrc with saving it.

edited Nov 08 '17 at 13:55

answered Nov 07 '17 at 13:45

Developer Marius Žilėnas

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