Fetching private gems via a private git repo

[lavoiesl]

Similar to #61, but when via a git repo, not a gems source.

The issue is that nix-prefetch-git does not honour the user's credentials and there isn't any way to tell bundix how to fetch those private repos.

See NixOS/nixpkgs#71246 for (a lot) more details.

[emptyflask]

Is this only an issue on MacOS? I'm running into it on my laptop, but I didn't have this problem on my NixOS machine for the same project for some reason.

[takeda]

@emptyflask is it possible that you have sandboxing disabled?

[emptyflask]

My mistake, I'm seeing this under NixOS now... I'm actually not sure why I was able to install sidekiq-pro without problems before.

[mwdomino]

I'm trying to build shell.nix for a few work projects and am running into this same issue. Creating the baseline shell.nix from https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Ruby lets me do a bundle install and happily installs the private gems, but bundix throws up an askpass prompt and an error after the failed auth. We use PATs for repo permissions so an askpass solution wouldn't work for my use case.

Is there any new info on how we may be able to work around this?

[emptyflask]

It's not a realistic solution for every case, but I've been doing this on my own projects:

gem 'foo', git: 'https://user:[email protected]/emptyflask/foo.git'