[chef] Re: Ruby, Chef, Omnibus and you!

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ohai!

On Dec 29, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Burkholder, Peter wrote:

> I've tried the omnibus approach but I'm using the FrameOS build now because 
> I need libselinux-ruby and I couldn't get that to build against the 1.9.1 
> Ruby in Omnibus.      I like the idea of having Chef neatly walled off in a 
> chef-full RPM, but it didn't suffice for me.  (We're using RHEL5 as our 
> platform).

Fwiw, you can append to the load path and load the selinux library after 
installing it as a package. I can't speak to how well this library will work 
with the Ruby version included in the Omnibus installation (ruby 1.9.2p180 as 
of now on my test system)


 
 ~]# rpm -qa | egrep "ruby|chef"
chef-full-0.10.8-2.x86_64

 
 ~]# shef
chef > recipe
chef:recipe > package "libselinux-ruby"
chef:recipe > run_chef
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:37 -0700] DEBUG: Processing package[libselinux-ruby] 
on centos6.int.housepub.org
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:37 -0700] INFO: Processing package[libselinux-ruby] 
action install ((irb#1) line 1)
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:42 -0700] DEBUG: package[libselinux-ruby] checking 
yum info for libselinux-ruby
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:42 -0700] DEBUG: package[libselinux-ruby] installed 
version: (none) candidate version: 2.0.94-5.2.el6
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:42 -0700] DEBUG: Executing yum -d0 -e0 -y install 
libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.2.el6
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:51 -0700] DEBUG: ---- Begin output of yum -d0 -e0 -y 
install libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.2.el6 ----
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:51 -0700] DEBUG: STDOUT: 
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:51 -0700] DEBUG: STDERR: 
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:51 -0700] DEBUG: ---- End output of yum -d0 -e0 -y 
install libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.2.el6 ----
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:51 -0700] DEBUG: Ran yum -d0 -e0 -y install 
libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.2.el6 returned 0
[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:08:51 -0700] INFO: package[libselinux-ruby] installed 
version 2.0.94-5.2.el6
 => true 
chef:recipe > $: << "/usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/"
 => [ OUTPUT TRUNCATED ]
chef:recipe > require 'selinux'
 => true 

I'll also update the relevant COOK ticket where this was discussed.

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