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

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On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Raphael Bauduin 
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> 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,
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>>>> 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...
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> This is prompting me to remake the maverick.box file with the missing
>> ruby metapackage.
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> ok, thx for the info
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>> We should notify Richard at DevStructure too.
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> As I'm still discovering the community, I'll let you do it :-)

Repackaged / rebuilt. The download link is the same as before:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/588496/maverick32.box

Its should solve the missing language[:ruby] problem reported here.

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