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My workplace has banned us from internet access so we can't connect to rubygems.org to install gems remotely.
I can access rubygems.org at home. Is there a simple way to enable me download and update the gems we need at home ,then sync them(by a portable hard disk or somthing) to a local gems mirror server at my workplace so that other colleagues can install gems from that mirror server?
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Our infrastructure is currently hosted on AWS. Some insights into the technical aspects of the site: It's 100% Ruby. The main site is a Rails application. Gems are hosted on Amazon S3, served by Fastly, and the time between publishing a new gem and having it ready for installation is usually just a few seconds.
RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries (in a self-contained format called a "gem"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Ruby comes with RubyGems by default since version 1.9, previous Ruby versions require RubyGems to be installed by hand.
Publishing to RubyGems.orgVisit the sign up page and supply an email address that you control, a handle (username) and a password. After creating the account, use your email and password when pushing the gem. (RubyGems saves the credentials in ~/. gem/credentials for you so you only need to log in once.)
You can use rubygems-mirror to mirror the gems and Gem in a box to host them.
Install rubygems-mirror:
$ gem install rubygems-mirror Edit ~/.gem/.mirrorrc:
--- - from: http://rubygems.org to: ~/.gem/mirror Create mirror dir:
$ mkdir ~/.gem/mirror Start mirroring:
$ gem mirror Once mirroring finishes edit ~/.gem/mirror/config.ru:
require "rubygems" require "geminabox" Geminabox.data = "./" run Geminabox Install Gem in a box:
$ gem install geminabox Start gem server:
$ cd ~/.gem/mirror $ rackup Edit your application's Gemfile to use your gem server:
source "http://your.servers.ip:9292" . Or add it as a local mirror for rubygems.org, so you don't have to change your Gemfile:
$ bundle config mirror.https://rubygems.org https://localgems.lan $ bundle config mirror.http://rubygems.org http://localgems.lan From time to time reindex your mirror:
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