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

[Wes Morgan < >]

On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:55 PM, AJ Christensen 
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> Yo,
>
> On 25 April 2012 13:49, Wes Morgan 
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>  wrote:
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>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:43 PM, AJ Christensen wrote:
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>>> 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.
>
> It would be my complete and total recommendation to seek not the
> installation of compilers to build huge Language packages.

I don't have many servers, and this only needs to be done once, at
bootstrap time. It got me up and running quickly with a much newer,
faster Ruby than Ubuntu's packages.

>
> You can easily manage this process out of band (once or repeatedly)
> and publish them to all nodes through very well suited package
> distribution channels.

Which would make sense if I had more servers or needed to do this more
often. In this case it's far simpler to just build ruby 1.9.3 via
ruby-build during bootstrapping.

>
> --AJ
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>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> ** snip **
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