No matter on which OS you are, - XP Family, XP Pro or Ubuntu 9.10. No
matter if you have firewall ‘hyper-sensitive’ or proxy. When trying to
do gem update --system or even when trying to install a new gem like
'gem install [gem_name] I always got the below error:
serge@serge-laptop:~$ sudo gem install heroku
ERROR: Error installing heroku:
invalid gem format for /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/heroku-1.4.gem
serge@serge-laptop:~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]
serge@serge-laptop:~$ gem -v
1.3.5
I always get the above error of ‘…invalid gem format…’. Any idea how
to resolve that? Something goes wrong in rubygems
commits/dependencies?Thank you.
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:22:41AM +0900, Serguei C. wrote:
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]
serge@serge-laptop:~$ gem -v
1.3.5
I always get the above error of ‘…invalid gem format…’. Any idea how
to resolve that? Something goes wrong in rubygems
commits/dependencies?Thank you.
Does this break with any other gem? Or is it only the heroku gem?
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:22:41AM +0900, Serguei C. wrote:
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]
serge@serge-laptop:~$ gem -v
1.3.5
I always get the above error of ‘…invalid gem format…’. Any idea how
to resolve that? Something goes wrong in rubygems
commits/dependencies?Thank you.
Does this break with any other gem? Or is it only the heroku gem?
With any other gem, even when I tried from installing Ruby, then doing
(On Windows or Ubuntu - it was the same):
gem update --system
Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::InstallError)
invalid gem format for
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/rubygems-update-1.3.5
.gem
Installing fromlocal rubygems-update-1.3.5 didn’t solve the problem.
Only the error message changed. Instead of
then, from the command line where you downloaded that file:
gem install rubygems-update-1.3.5.gem
If doesn’t work, then you’re behind a firewall or proxy that is
blocking all the Amazon S3 downloads and is downloading garbage that
RubyGems cannot install
I think I found the reason. I just opened the file that Ruby pointed in
(C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/[gem_name]. Here is what was inside (I
had to do that much earlier without loosing so much time :(:
<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head><body><header>
</header>
<center><img src="http://192.168.50.254:7000/blocked.jpg">
<p><b>This website is blocked.</b></p>
<p><b>To unlock it's content, please send a request to <a
href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></b></p>
</center>
</body></html>
As you can see, the problem was that Ruby tried to go through the port
7000 that was blocked by the enterprise firewall.
Just to be sure at 100%, I took 2 laptops: with Windows XP Family and
Ubuntu 9.10 and tried to install RoR environment at home where I know
exactly my firewall configuration. And, as I expected, everything was
installed without any problem.
Thank you so much for your help. I’d like that Ruby error message to be
more user-friendly, like that one could get an idea more quickly where
to search.
That’s why it was clear that it was blocked by firewall. And right after
that, I decided to check the file
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/[gem_name] and saw the port number.
Thank you again.
installed without any problem.
Thank you so much for your help. I'd like that Ruby error message to be
more user-friendly, like that one could get an idea more quickly where
to search.
It was pointed several times over this thread and by others that you
may be behind a firewall.
A proper firewall shouldn’t return HTTP 200 OK but instead something
else.
The problem is not Ruby, but the firewall, how can RubyGems determine
what will do so many proxy/firewalls in relation to blocking of
content?
That’s why it was clear that it was blocked by firewall. And right after
that, I decided to check the file
C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/cache/[gem_name] and saw the port number.
Thank you again.
I googled so much but didn’t find any info describing the port number
that gem command usually used to connect to the repository. I thought it
was always 80 when usin cmd prompt or terminal window. Have you ever
heard anything about that?
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