On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:32:57PM +1200, Tim Uckun wrote:
> I seem to be having a lot of problems installing gems all of a sudden.
> At first I thought it was my system but now I am starting to think the
> problem is with rubygems.
> 
> Every time I try to install a gem I get this error.
> 
> gem install bundler
> Fetching: bundler-1.0.18.gem ( 13B)
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
>     undefined method `spec' for nil:NilClass

Are you by any chance connecting through Telecom?  We've just moved into
a new office and were sharing an internet connection with one of the
neighbours while we were waiting to get connected.  Said neighbour's
connection is provided by Telecom.

I was getting the exact same error when trying to do anything gem
related.  After a lot of f*dging around I discovered that instead of
getting gem files I was getting empty HTML documents, '<HTML></HTML>'.
It seems Telecom have a transparent HTTP proxy which was causing this.

If it is the same problem, you'll find these empty HTML files in your
gem cache directories.

Malc

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