could not find valid gem 'inspec'

[kmanohar1]

My node does NOT have internet connection. I get his error while running chef-client.

STDERR: ERROR: Could not find a valid gem 'inspec' (= 1.8.0), here is why:
Unable to download data from https://rubygems.org/ - Errno::EHOSTUNREACH: Failed to open TCP connection to api.rubygems.org:443 (No route to host - connect(2) for "api.rubygems.org" port 443) (https://api.rubygems.org/specs.4.8.gz)

[vjeffrey]

hi @kmanohar1; sorry to hear that :( We've played around with a couple ideas for solving the issue of getting the inspec gem in airgapped environments (#112, #165)

If you have an internal gem repo, you could use this functionality: https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/audit/blob/master/attributes/default.rb#L25

curious: what would best solve your needs, of the options above or other?

[kmanohar1]

Thank you so much. Overriding 'inspec_gem_source' attribute worked for me.