Not able to install solr Error: marshal data too short

[websiddu]

I am getting the following error...
➜ ~ brew install solr
==> Downloading http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=lucene/solr/4.5.1/solr-4.5.1.tgz
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:49:in dump': no marshal_dump is defined for class StringIO (TypeError) from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:49:inmain'
from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:12
from /usr/local/Library/Formula/solr.rb:23
Error: marshal data too short
Please report this bug:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:454:in load' /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:454:inbuild'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:221:in ignore_interrupts' /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:449:inbuild'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:212:in install' /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:88:ininstall_formula'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:31:in install' /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:29:ineach'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:29:in install' /usr/local/Library/brew.rb:95:insend'
/usr/local/Library/brew.rb:95

[jacknagel]

Weird. I can't find anything that would be holding a reference to a StringIO.

[jacknagel]

Do you have http_proxy set?

[websiddu]

I do have http_proxy.. I am able to install postgres, git etc.. other softwares except this..

[jacknagel]

Yeah, apache downloads are a special case in Homebrew, and certain usage of http_proxy can break it due to an apparent bug in Ruby's open-uri library, see #17811

[jacknagel]

Here's a patch that replaces open-uri with curl: https://github.com/jacknagel/homebrew/compare/apache

[jacknagel]

Pushed a commit that should resolve this.

[websiddu]

yeah.. worked.. thanks!!