[chef] Re: cookbook lib requiring gem

[Jacobo García < >]

Check this post from opscode blog where it explains how to require mysql library and then using it in the same recipe:

http://www.opscode.com/blog/2009/06/01/cool-chef-tricks-install-and-use-rubygems-in-a-chef-run/

Hope it helps.

Jacobo García López de Araujo
blog: http://robotplaysguitar.com
http://workingwithrails.com/person/13395-jacobo-garc-a

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Andreas Kollegger < "> > wrote:

Hi,

What's the appropriate way to require a non-standard gem for a cookbook's library? I'm adding a zip.rb library to my cookbook, but it requires 'archive/zip' to do the actual work.

Should manually installing that gem be a pre-requisite,  or is there a clever way to bootstrap it with the gem_package resource in the recipe that uses it?

Or, is relying on extra gems frowned upon?

Thanks for any hints,
Andreas