[chef] Re: Gem install on Ubuntu 12

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

I think the thing is, if you want to run Chef with Ubuntu 12, you want to switch the default version of ruby away from ruby1.8. So you'd want to do "update-alternatives --config ruby" to point the default to ruby1.9 (and associated binaries such as "gem", "ri", "rdoc", etc.).

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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Steve Bennett < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi all,

  This is a bug report/heads up, not a support request - my issue is solved.

I ran into an issue a couple of days ago with the default (omnibus?) chef-client install on Ubuntu 12.04. Basically, it somehow ends up with two versions of Gems (or just Ruby? - I'm not a Ruby person) installed, in different locations: Gems 1.8 in /var/lib/gems, and 1.9.1 somewhere else (/opt/...something...chef-embedded I think). The upshot of this was that a cookbook that worked on Ubuntu 10.04 didn't work - a postgres gem ("pg") installed, but couldn't be found by a later step that required it. It was present, but not available to the ruby environment in use at the time.

People on IRC helped with a workaround: installing chef-client with the specific distribution, "-d ubuntu12.04".

I'm just mentioning this so the relevant people are aware and can hopefully fix it. The recipe I ran into problems with is here: https://github.com/stevage/mytardis-chef

Steve