Rails: "URI::InvalidURIError" and "Port 22" timeout.

Stack Overflow original post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26290541/rails-4-env-variables-bash-profile-and-heroku

I am following along with the "Learn Ruby on Rails" tutorial by Daniel Kehoe. Everything was working great until I switched to a new computer.

I recently transferred my rails app from a PC running Ubuntu 14.04 to a new Macbook Pro. On the Ubuntu computer, my .bash_profile has the following ENV variables set up:

export GMAIL_USERNAME=“example@gmail.com”
export GMAIL_PASSWORD=“‘app-specific-password’”
export MAILCHIMP_API_KEY=“random-key”
export MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID=“list-id”
export OWNER_EMAIL=“example@gmail.com”
export SECRET_KEY_BASE=“random-key”

On the mac, I opened .bash_profile and added the same info. I run the rails server and my home page opens, but if I try to submit an email in my subscribe form I get the following error:

URI::InvalidURIError at /visitors
bad URI(is not URI?): https://us9”.api.mailchimp.com/2.0/lists/subscribe
It shows the problem on line 9:

7        def subscribe
8          mailchimp = Gibbon::API.new(Rails.application.secrets.mailchimp_api_key)
9            result = mailchimp.lists.subscribe({
10              :id => Rails.application.secrets.mailchimp_list_id,
11              :email => {:email => self.email},
12              :double_optin => false,
13              :update_existing => true,
14              :send_welcome => true

I tried changing my mailchimp_api_key, but was unable to solve the issue, so I decided to continue through the tutorial. The next chapter was on Heroku which required creating the same ENV variables. I followed the process thoroughly but received this error after running the git push heroku master:

ssh: connect to host heroku.com port 22: Operation timed out
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. Any ideas on what could be going on?

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UPDATE

After reading some similar issues, I decided to check out port 22 by running the ssh -vT git@github.com and received this:

debug1: connect to address 192.30.252.129 port 22: Operation timed out
ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Operation timed out

I enabled "Remote Login" in System Preferences > Sharing and still no luck.

I am running Mac OSX 10.9.5.