From: samyw@...
Date: 2007-02-14T23:10:05+09:00
Subject: howto gem thru a proxy

high

my problem was the following:

H:\>gem search bla --remote

*** REMOTE GEMS ***
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Errno::EBADF)
    Bad file descriptor - connect(2)

a long time i could not figure out, why this happens - though i had
the intention, it must be, because i only can go thru a proxy to the i-
net. so, here is finally the solution, if you suffer the same
circumstances.

1. find out, what your proxy url is (in your functioning browsers
options you will find something like a http://terra.sol.org/proxy.pac;
donwload this, open in an editor an find your proxy-server url)

2. assuming your proxys url is: http://terra.sol.proxy.org:8080, set
an environment variable called http_proxy to that url:

open a shell/command-window an do:

REALOS> export http_proxy=http://terra.sol.proxy.org:8080
NOOS> set http_proxy=http://terra.sol.proxy.org:8080
ANYOS> gem install fxri

thats it

have fun!