[chef] Re: Re: Invidious choices 101: Chef (<= 0.10) vs Vagrant

[Michael Hale < >]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Hedge Hog 
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> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Tim Diggins 
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>> What do you mean by "using vagrant and chef in the same project".
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> One Gemfile with both present, and I don't think groups allow you to
> sidestep this.
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>> I'm using
>> chef as a provisioner (primarily as a means to test my chef recipes/roles 
>> in
>> a speedy environment (switching vagrant between a chef-solo (for speed) and
>> chef server model (to the platform, for testing more advanced configs). But
>> I don't think that's what you meant. (I notice that vagrant during a
>> "vagrant provision" run seems to use an earlier version of chef than the
>>  latest one I have installed - is gem dependency management that clever?)
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> Could be or Vagrant adjusts the load path so the Chef it cah use is
> encountered first - I haven't looked into the code that closely.
> I think I have a (non-trivial) workaround, that is transparent to the
> library user, just exploring it now....

I think vagrant has it's own seperate install of chef actually on the
vagrant instance that it uses. I was able to see the details by grep
the vagrant gem for references to chef-client or chef-solo.

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>> Tim
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Hedge Hog 
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>>> Hi,
>>> Due to Chef pinning the json gem at <=1.4.6 you can't use vagrant in
>>> the same ruby gem environment as Chef....
>>> This issue is proving to be a blocker in the quest to reuse Cucumber
>>> steps in Vagrant+Chef use cases.
>>>
>>> What methods are people adopting to use Chef and Vagrant in the same
>>> project?
>>>
>>> At the moment all I can think of is to try switch gemsets with RVM
>>> whenever you need to use `knife ...`, but I'm open to any other
>>> suggestions
>>> Specifically, I see the current master still has Chef pinning json gem
>>> at <=1.4.6. So I assume this restriction will be around for some
>>> considerable time. That means any workaround that is not clean/easy
>>> gets a look in :)
>>>
>>> Appreciate any hints or tips.
>>>
>>> --
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>>> http://wiki.hedgehogshiatus.com
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> πόλλ' οἶδ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα
> [The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.]
>   Archilochus, Greek poet (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC)
> http://wiki.hedgehogshiatus.com
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