[chef] Re: Re: Re: Gem install on Ubuntu 12

[AJ Christensen < >]

I fear you've seen a case where an out of date cookbook in an old
version of a snapshot repository hasn't been updated to use 'chef_gem'
resource to install gem to the Opscode Chef embedded Ruby
installation.

In the culprit recipe, if you change gem_package "pg" etc to chef_gem
"pg", that should remedy it!

Most of the Opscode cookbooks on the community site have been updated
to support the new Omnibus based installations.

At Heavy Water, we developed the 'chef_gem' cookbook to allow "Forward
Compatibility" for ~> 0.10.0 to use the 'chef_gem' resource.

I'd additionally suggest the 'omnibus_updater' and 'gem_installer'
cookbooks too.

Hope this helps,

--AJ

http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/chef_gem
http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/gem_installer
http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/omnibus_updater


On 23 July 2012 19:38, Ash Berlin 
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> Doing that would change the system ruby to the one installed by omnibus
> which defeats many of the purposes of installing another non-system ruby for
> use with chef.
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> -ash
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> On 23 Jul 2012, at 05:48, Morgan Blackthorne wrote:
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> 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 
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>> Hi all,
>>   This is a bug report/heads up, not a support request - my issue is
>> solved.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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