pik install ruby fails, undefined method 'closed?' for nil:NilClass

[stephan-nordnes-eriksen]

Trying to run "pik install ruby". This happens:

C:\Users\MyUserName>pik install ruby
** Downloading:  http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/76707/ruby-1.9.3-p374-i38
6-mingw32.7z
   to:  C:\Users\Stephan\.pik\downloads\ruby-1.9.3-p374-i386-mingw32.7z


There was an error.
 Error: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass

  in: net/http.rb:1060:in `request'
  in: pik/contrib/uri_ext.rb:245:in `read'
  in: pik/contrib/uri_ext.rb:293:in `connect'
  in: pik/contrib/uri_ext.rb:240:in `read'
  in: pik/contrib/uri_ext.rb:120:in `download'
  in: tempfile.rb:188:in `open'
  in: pik/contrib/uri_ext.rb:118:in `download'
  in: pik/contrib/uri_ext.rb:60:in `download'
  in: pik/commands/install_command.rb:53:in `download'
  in: pik/commands/install_command.rb:25:in `execute'
  in: pik_runner:33

Anyone got any idea of what is going on?