Force bundle install to use https:// instead of git:// for GitHub-based gems

Question

I am trying to build a rails project and because the host I am working on doesn\'t have access to the Internet for the the git:// protocol (port 9418) I get errors like

Answer 1

if you're deploying to heroku, you can just add BUNDLE_GITHUB__HTTPS (note the double underscore) as an environment variable and set it to true (in your heroku app's dashboard under the Settings tab in the Config Vars section). this will switch the protocol from git:// to https:// for all such requests.

Answer 2

If a solution that requires a special obscure setting to be performed on every installation you make for just a teeny weeny bit of syntactic sugar isn't a solution.

That's why I'm proposing this as an answer:

just use :https & report a security bug with bundler that the unencrypted protocol is default.

Answer 3

You can do:

gem 'jasmine', git: 'https://github.com/pivotal/jasmine-gem.git'

Answer 4

Git provides URL rewriting functionality using the url..insteadOf configuration option.

So to make all connections to github.com use https:// rather than git://

git config --global url."https://github.com".insteadOf git://github.com

The --global switch sets the config option for all git operations by the current user, so there are times where it may be too intrusive. But it does avoid changing the git config in the current project.

Answer 5

Use bundle config github.https true

Answer 6

If you want this just for all the gems in one Gemfile you can add these lines at the top of the file:

git_source(:github) do |repo_name|
  repo_name = "#{repo_name}/#{repo_name}" unless repo_name.include?("/")
  "https://github.com/#{repo_name}.git"
end

Alternatively you can use bundle config github.https true. But this affects only your current environment.

This won't be necessary anymore with Bundler 2.0.