[chef] RE: Ruby for Chef

["Stroomer, Jeff" < >]

Randy,

 

We’re running chef using ruby 1.9.2p290, though I myself didn’t compile ruby from source.  Works well.  In fact, we found we couldn’t get chef to work with ruby 1.8.7 because of ssh bugs.  Don’t know what would happen if you used an even newer ruby.

 

Jeff

 

From: Van Fossan,Randy [mailto:
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:59 AM
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Subject: [chef] Ruby for Chef

 

Two questions for my fellow chef’s…  

 

1.        Has anyone used Ruby 1.9.3-pxxx ?   We have a requirement of at least 1.9.2-p290.

2.      Also, in compiling ruby from source, I find a lot of conflicting information on the web.   What do I actually need to support Chef Server and Chef clients?

 

Currently, I am running a mix of SuSe 10, 11 and CentOS 5.x, 6.x and some RedHat 5.x.   I am concentrating on CentOS 5.x and 6.x.   I found the following on web and am trying it.   However, I don’t want to discover any gotchas’ down the road.  

 

I have tried the RBEL repo version of Ruby-1.9.2-p290 RPM but it doesn’t install correctly.   I have compiled Ruby-1.9.2-p290 from source several times and it seems to work, but, I’ve been bitten before.

 

Anyone have any recommendations.  Remember, I have to run at least 1.9.2-p290.