[chef] Opscode MySQL cookbook

[Jon Wood < >]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up an application to deploy using Chef, and I'm
having some trouble with the MySQL cookbook from the Opscode
repository when including the mysql::client recipe on first run. The
client recipe has the following running under Ubuntu:

  gem_package "mysql" do
    action :nothing
  end

  r.run_action(:install)

That fails on the first run using my base image, because at the point
that the cookbook gets loaded and attempts to install the mysql gem I
don't have ruby1.8-dev installed yet. The ruby cookbook is being
included in a default role applied to all nodes, but doesn't get a
chance to run in time.

Is there a particular reason for forcing both the gem and mysql-devel
to be installed immediately, rather then respecting my run list's
order?

Cheers,
Jon