Local ruby gems fail to install on Windows 2008R2: Errno::EADDRNOTAVAIL - ruby

Question

Edit: Bug in rubygems 2.4.4. (fixed in 2.4.5)
I'm having trouble installing gems with the embedded ruby that comes with Chef Client v12.2.1, using the chef_gem resource:
Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
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chef_gem[zabbixapi] (generic_server_win::libzabbix-deps line 6) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommand Failed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
---- Begin output of C:/opscode/chef/embedded/bin/gem install c:/chef/cache/zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "2.2.2" ----
STDOUT:
STDERR: ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EADDRNOTAVAIL)
The requested address is not valid in its context. - connect(2)
---- End output of C:/opscode/chef/embedded/bin/gem install c:/chef/cache/zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "2.2.2" ----
Ran C:/opscode/chef/embedded/bin/gem install c:/chef/cache/zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v "2.2.2" returned 1
Also:
Same result when running the command manually on the command-line as an Administrator with the --local option
Same error occurs for other gems.
The servers that I'm trying to run this on have no internet access
I'm unable to reproduce the problem on a newly installed test machine (with internet access)
The version of ruby used is 2.0.0: ruby 2.0.0p451 (2014-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
Here is my Chef recipe:
cookbook_file "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem" do
source 'zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem'
end
chef_gem "zabbixapi" do
source "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem"
end

Answer 1

You're problem is that the chef_gem resource is special in the way it enforce the use of the embedded ruby in chef installation and that it is run before convergence to allow the gem to be required in recipes. documentation about it here
To use a local source deployed with chef you have to ensure the file is present before, if not the gem command will try to download it (and fail with no internet access).
To ensure your local file is present before the chef_gem call you have to ensure the cookbook_file resource is called at compile time with this trick
in your specific case this should do:
cookbook_file "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem" do
action :nothing
source 'zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem'
end.run_action(:create)
chef_gem "zabbixapi" do
source "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/zabbixapi-2.2.2.gem"
end
The action nothing in the resource is to avoid having it called twice (once in compile phase and once in converge phase, even if the later won't have any impact, it's better to save time no evaluating it twice) then calling the action :create at end of the definition will trigger the action in the compile phase and the file will be present for the chef_gem call later.