How do I update Ruby Gems from behind a Proxy (ISA-NTLM) *

Question

Firewall I'm behind is running Microsoft ISA server (NTLM only mode), anyone have success getting their Ruby gems to install/update via Ruby SSPI gem or other method?

... or am I just being lazy?

Edit: rubysspi-1.2.4 does not work

UPDATE: This also works for "igem", part of the IronRuby project

Answer

I wasn't able to get mine working from the command line switch but I have been able to do it just by setting my HTTP_PROXY environment variable (note that case seems to be important). I have a batch file that has a line like this in it:

SET HTTP_PROXY=http://%USER%:%PASSWORD%@%SERVER%:%PORT%

I set the four referenced variables before I get to this line obviously. As an example if my username is wolfbyte, my password is secret and my proxy is called pigsy and operates on port 8080:

SET HTTP_PROXY=http://wolfbyte:secret@pigsy:8080

You might want to be careful how you manage that because it stores your password in plain text in the machine's session but I don't think it should be too much of an issue.

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