[chef] Installing chef-client on Ubuntu 10.04

[Luke Biddell < >]

Folks,

I'm currently following the ruby gems installation for ubuntu. We're using this rather than the apt method as some of the gems we require appear to need a newer version of rubygems than the ubuntu package.

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Client+on+Ubuntu+or+Debian#InstallingChefClientonUbuntuorDebian-Rubygem

So my install procedure is pretty much this:

sudo -E apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert curl

cd /tmp

curl -O http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.8.10.tgz

tar zxf rubygems-1.8.10.tgz

cd rubygems-1.8.10

sudo -E ruby setup.rb --no-format-executable

sudo -E gem install chef --no-ri --no-rdoc


sudo -E gem install aws-sdk pony --no-ri --no-rdoc


I then register my node with my chef server and that's fine.




As soon as I add my recipe into the node's runlist and sudo chef-client this happens







        FATAL: LoadError: no such file to lead -- aws-sdk

However, if I do this:

export GEM_PATH=/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8







I can then sudo chef-client and the aws-sdk gem is loaded.




So there's several questions:




1) Have I missed something which is breaking the GEM_PATH?

2) Where should I set GEM_PATH so it's seen by chef-client during a manual run and as a daemon?




Ideally we would just bootstrap, and we are going to do that, but I'd still like to know where the issue lies.




TIA




Luke