[chef] Re: application cookbook, ruby 1.9, rails 3.1.0, mysql gem not getting installed?

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hello,

On Sep 5, 2011, at 11:39 PM, Denis Haskin wrote:
> All seems good *except* that the mysql gem is not getting installed (or not
> getting installed early enough?) and so the process fails when the database
> master role tries to create the database, for which it is apparently using
> the mysql gem (specifically: "INFO: Processing mysql_database[create
> zmx_staging] action create_db (database::master line 84)").


The mysql::client recipe that handles installing the MySQL ruby libraries 
will install them as a package on debian/ubuntu and redhat-family distros. We 
should probably make it a gem installation on all platforms because of this 
particular issue.

To fix, you can replace the if block from line 43-61[0] in the mysql::client 
recipe with:

   gem_package "mysql" do
    action :install
  end

[0]: in version 1.2.0, the current release on community.opscode.com.

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