Install ruby gems offline / proxy configuration

Question

I need to install ruby on rails + Nokogiri, httparty, json [and some less significant gems] on server which does not have connection to internet. How it could be done?

host operating system is windows

Additional question, well, it is not very good for me, since it can takes some days, but I can as customer to give this server access to the http proxy. However I must confess, that I already tried to use somethin like that

set http_proxy="http://username:password@host:port"

or

gem --http_proxy "http://username:password@host:port"

but in both cases was not able to access the gem store :(

Answer 1

Fast solution:

gem install -p http://proxy_ip:proxy_port rails

is a fast and working way but I needed something permanent for every installation.

Permanent solution:

1. Create a file:

   vi ~/.gemrc
   

2. Add contents

   # HTTP Proxy options
   http_proxy: http://proxy_ip:proxy_port
   https_proxy: http://proxy_ip:proxy_port
   # For authentication (although not tested)
   http_proxy_user: username
   http_proxy_pass: password
   https_proxy_user: username 
   https_proxy_pass: password 
   

3. Verify proxies appear in gem environment variables

   gem env
   

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RubyGems Environment: - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.5.2 - RUBY VERSION: 2.3.3 (2016-11-21 patchlevel 222) [universal.x86_64-darwin17]

Answer 2

I solved it this way:

set http_proxy=host:port

without any quotes, http:// protocol and username:password. Cheers