Gem file with git remote failing on heroku push

Question

I have the following line in my gemfile:

gem \'client_side_validations\', :git => \"git@github.com:Dakuan/client_side_validations.git\", :branch => \"maste         


        

Answer 1

A late second answer, as I ran into some confusing output from Heroku's build logs which stumped me for a while.

If you have multiple Github hosted gems in your Gemfile, and one of them is inaccessible (in my case, I had accidentally pointed to a private repo of mine), the build logs throw an error like Username not found or Repository not found for all the Github hosted gems - even those that are available.

Answer 2

Use this GitHub URL instead: git://github.com/Dakuan/client_side_validations.git

The git@github.com:… URL is the writable SSH version, which requires authentication with an SSH key connected to a GitHub account that has write access to the repository.

The git://github.com/… URL is the public, read-only version.

Since the gem you're using is in a public GitHub repository, you can also use this shorthand in your Gemfile:

gem 'client_side_validations', :github => 'Dakuan/client_side_validations'

See the Bundler Git documentation for more information.