Issue installing gems on windows 7 with proxy

The HTTP_PROXY syntax needs to be URI:

SET HTTP_PROXY=scheme://user:pass@host:port/path

scheme could be http or https and on some cases path could be absent.

No browser (or RubyGems) will accept as valid URL the one you provided.

So in your case:

SET HTTP_PROXY=http://username:[email protected]:8080/

Hope that helps

At work i have a proyx also, SET HTTP_PROXY=http://proxyhere.com:8080 works there, so try it without usename/password. It depends on the type of proxy i presume.

You could also use:

gem install --http-proxy http://proxyhere.com:8080 $gem_name

See this for more info How do I update Ruby Gems from behind a Proxy (ISA-NTLM)