[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Rails 3 and ruby 1.9.2 application with chef

[Wes Morgan < >]

On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:43 PM, AJ Christensen wrote:

> If you use omnibus to install chef, it's already being installed into
> a ruby 1.9x embedded container.
> 
> I'd recommend using the ruby cookbook, and setting the attributes so
> that it installs ruby1.9.x -- it'll end up in your standard system
> location; then any other service you can deploy will use that ruby due
> to it being in $PATH.

Doesn't the ruby cookbook only know how to install the distro packaged Ruby 
versions? On Ubuntu, that means Ruby 1.9.1, which won't work with Rails 3. 
Ruby 1.9.2+ or Ruby 1.8.7 is required (so I got that slightly wrong before).

I ended up using the rbenv cookbook to install 1.9.3.

> 
> At Heavy Water, we have our continuous delivery platform build a Ruby
> artefact for the architectures being used in the deployment with a
> custom cookbook (instead of the opscode Ruby) to deploy that.
> Eventually we may try to work in compatibility there.
> 
> We've had a little trouble with this route when you need to install
> gems with gem_package into either VM, but it's easily worked around
> with the gem_binary parameter.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --AJ
> 

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