How to push a gem without auth?

Question

How can I push gem to a private server without an authorization? Is there a way to disable it?

gem push mygem-0.0.0.gem --host http://localhost:51856
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The private server does not require authorization. The question is how to disable it for the gem push operation?

I am sorry my question was not clear. My understanding of your question is: You are running a private RubyGems server and you need help on how to configure the server. My question is: What server software do you use because there is different software available to run private RubyGems server. — spickermann, Apr 23 '20 at 11:31
Did you try to set a random `GEM_HOST_API_KEY` ENV variable? See: https://guides.rubygems.org/command-reference/#description-18 — spickermann, Apr 23 '20 at 13:18
@spickermann, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. — Sammers, Apr 27 '20 at 10:56

spickermann · Answer 1 · 2023-06-25T06:14:07.493

On the one side, you wrote your gem server on your own and your server does not need and therefore does not check credentials. On the other side, the gem push command expects that the gem server always requires credentials.

A workaround could be to configure a random GEM_HOST_API_KEY environment variable. When that variable existing, the gem push command will not ask for credentials anymore and will instead send that random API key, which then will be ignored by your server.

How to push a gem without auth?

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