[chef] Re: RE: Ruby for Chef

[Matt Ray < >]

1) You sound like the poster child for the new Full Stack Client
installer. It's currently in beta but has been deployed in a wide
variety of production environments already. It provides the full Chef
stack (Ruby and dependencies) for many platforms (not sure about SuSE
yet, but the others are covered) and isolates it from the rest of your
installation (/opt/opscode) so you can run whatever version of Ruby
you need for your applications. More here:
http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2011-12/msg00349.html and
http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/

2) There is not a Full Stack Chef Server yet, so I believe you'll
still have to tackle that problem with the resources on the wiki for
managing your server platform of choice.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist | Opscode Inc.

 
 | (512) 731-2218
Twitter, IRC, GitHub: mattray

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Stroomer, Jeff
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> Randy,
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> 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.
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> Jeff
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> From: Van Fossan,Randy 
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:59 AM
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> Subject: [chef] Ruby for Chef
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> Two questions for my fellow chef’s…
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> 1.        Has anyone used Ruby 1.9.3-pxxx ?   We have a requirement of at
> least 1.9.2-p290.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Anyone have any recommendations.  Remember, I have to run at least
> 1.9.2-p290.
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