[chef] Re: Re: Re: definition of languages[:ruby][:gems_dir] ?

[Raphael Bauduin < >]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Dreamcat4 
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> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Raphael Bauduin 
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>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Raphael Bauduin 
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm still trying to get up to speed with Chef. I'm using knife to get
>>> my cookbooks from opscode's server.
>>> The passenger_apache cookbook uses languages[:ruby][:gems_dir], but I
>>> don't find it defined anywhere. How can I know which cookbook in the
>>> repository sets the value of this? I haven't read anywhere that I'm
>>> supposed to set it myself.
>>> I grep'd in my clone of the github repo, but still without success.
>>> But IIRC, the passenger installation was running fine with these
>>> cookbooks (I had to switch to knife for other reasons).
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>> Seems this is set by ohai since version 0.3.0:
>> http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/OHAI-81?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Aall-tabpanel
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>> I'm running version 0.5.8 (on ubuntu 10.10), but the ruby hash when
>> calling ohai  is still empty:
>>   "ruby": {
>>    }
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> Hmm...
>
> There was a similar issue where languages[:java] was missing
> entirely (=nil). On the Tomcat6 cookbook.
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> Raised as issue COOK-403
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> http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-403
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>> any idea on how to fix this?
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> I recon that in the case of Tomcat6 cookbook - it was because Java
> wasn't installed on the system. And therefore logically the
> languages[:java] attributes could not be populated by ohai. So
> thats an assumption in the attributes file for Tomcat6 cookbook.
>
> In your particular case - im guessing that your using the maverick32.box
> file? We have discovered that particular base image doesnt come with
> the ruby metapackage.
>
> It seems reasonable to assume that the Ruby language is already
> installed since chef relies upon ruby. And because ohai runs at the
> start of a chef run - it should be installed there in the base image.
>
> This is prompting me to remake the maverick.box file with the missing
> ruby metapackage.

ok, thx for the info

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> We should notify Richard at DevStructure too.
>

As I'm still discovering the community, I'll let you do it :-)

Raph

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>> thanks
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>> Raph
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>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Raph
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