[chef-dev] Re: jruby

[Avishai Ish-Shalom < >]

I'm currently heading an effort to create a standalone chef-in-a-jar.
I'm working on making chef-client and chef-solo play nice with jruby as
well as the packaging.

Regards,
Avishai


On 01/05/12 13:52, Laurent Desarmes wrote:
> Bryan Berry 
> <
 >
>  writes:
>
>> big, big +1 for better support on jruby, though I have no idea of the
>> technical challenges
> I'd also love to have support for jruby.
> I've written a cookbook with its LWRP that requires "java" and use a
> java SDK.
> I've been using it nearly a year with jchef-solo.
> shef, some commands of knife and some plugins of ohai also work.
>
> The ohai hostname plugin does use fork and fails to set fqdn.
> chef doesn't like it, quick workarounds :
> - shef -j attribute.file.json with a fqdn: "my.fqdn" attribute
> - chef-solo -N my.fqdn
>
> In the past I was running jruby with -J-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
> but it looks it's not relevant anymore. (was preventing a long delay
> during startup)
>