I want to install a private Ruby gem server with some authentication. I want to be able to host in-house gems using a public Ubuntu server.

I read about http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/18. But there is no authentication with that one - as I can see.

Then I read about https://github.com/cwninja/geminabox. But when I use the basic authentication (they have in their Wiki), it complaints about fetching the sources from my server.

So. How can I make a private Ruby gem server with authentication? Is that just impossible?

Thanks.

Edit:

Geminabox problem. I try to "bundle" to install new gems... but it gives me this error:

AGs-MacBook-Pro:super_app AG$ bundle

Fetching source index for http:// rubygems.org/

Fetching source index for http:// localhost:9292/

Could not reach rubygems repository http:// rubygems.org/, http:// localhost:9292/

Could not find aglipsum-0.0.1 in any of the sources

And "aglipsum" is my custom gem. However when I do not have basic authentication on, it works.

Some professional binary repository managers, such as Artifactory, support private RubyGems repositories.

Have you tried prefixing the source url with your basic auth credentials:

gem sources -a http://user:password@localhost:9292

This works for me with an apache + passanger setup.

Bundler version 1.6 added support for HTTP auth via bundle config.

take a look if my fork of geminabox is what you need. I add the authentication for managing gems.

https://github.com/poshboytl/geminabox

Deploy private rubygems repository

You can easily setup private rubygems repository from geminabox docker image:

docker run -d -v /path_where_to_store_gems:/webapps/geminabox/data --name geminabox -p 9292:9292 -P -h geminabox -e PRIVATE=true -e USERNAME=myuser -e PASSWORD=mypassword spoonest/geminabox:latest

don't forget to change:

• /path_where_to_store_gems - path on your local machine where you want to store your gems
• myuser - username
• mypassword - password

That's all. Your repository is accessible by url http://YOUR_HOST:9292

Installing gems form private repository

Add following line at the top of your Gemfile:

source 'http://myuser:mypassword@YOUR_HOST:9292'

... and use bundle install as usual.