Trouble using rubygems config file on windows

Ruby
1

Hey All,

I’m trying to get rubygems to use my .gemrc file on windows and having
trouble–dig it:

C:\ruby\bin>gem environment
Failed to load C:\Documents and Settings\pardre1/.gemrc
Rubygems Environment:

  • VERSION: 0.9.0 (0.9.0)
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • GEM PATH:
    • C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • REMOTE SOURCES:

The file listed does indeed exist–I’m guessing there needs to be a
.gsub(/\/, “/”) in there somewhere to translate the backslashes to
forwardslashes on windows?

Thanks!

-Roy

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Hey All,

I’m trying to get rubygems to use my .gemrc file on windows and having
trouble–dig it:

C:\ruby\bin>gem environment
Failed to load C:\Documents and Settings\pardre1/.gemrc

See this line? Try changing the forward slash at the right to a
reverse-slash.

/ …

The file listed does indeed exist–I’m guessing there needs to be a
.gsub(/\/, “/”) in there somewhere to translate the backslashes to
forwardslashes on windows?

Hard to say. But be consistent – all forward, or all backward, but not
mixed as they are now.

3

Sure–I get that they all have to be forward slashes. But it’s
rubygems–not code I’ve written, so I’m not sure exactly where to make
the change.

That said–I did try changing line 380 of
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\rubygems.rb to:

return ENV[homekey].gsub(/\/, “/”) if ENV[homekey]

And now I get the same error message, except that the filespec looks
righteous:

C:\ruby\bin>gem environment
Failed to load C:/Documents and Settings/pardre1/.gemrc
Rubygems Environment:

  • VERSION: 0.9.0 (0.9.0)
  • INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • GEM PATH:
    • C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  • REMOTE SOURCES:

In irb, I can do e.g.,:

irb(main):001:0> f = File.open(“C:/Documents and
Settings/pardre1/.gemrc”)
=> #<File:C:/Documents and Settings/pardre1/.gemrc>
irb(main):002:0> f.read
=> “–http-proxy http://localhost:5865”
irb(main):003:0>

So maybe the problem is that my file is not interpretable as YAML? If
so–can anybody tell me how to say “use the proxy server
http://localhost:5865” in YAML?

Thanks!

-Roy