ERROR: While executing gem … (Zlib::GzipFile::Error) not in gzip format

Question

I am developing a Sencha touch 2 application. I have been following the \"Styling the user interface of a Sencha Touch application\" tutorial on theming of secha touch appli

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, it worked on my own private laptop, but failed while using a virtual server at work (running Ubuntu 12.10) that used a proxy.

Following the suggestion I found here, from the command line I defined:

export HTTPS_PROXY=proxy-address:proxy-port-number

export HTTP_PROXY=proxy-address:proxy-port-number

and then my gem install package worked fine.