[chef] Re: chef 0.10.6 and chef_gem

[AJ Christensen < >]

Heavy Water produced this cookbook to add chef_gem to versions < 0.10.12

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

alternately, you can use the old school way of doing it (compile time):

On 6 August 2012 01:32, Jesse Campbell 
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 >
 wrote:
> well chef_gem didn't exist in 0.10.6, but we haven't upgraded yet, and
> i'm running into a problem...
>
> I want to do something like this:

g = gem_package "f5-icontrol" do
  source "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/f5-icontrol-10.2.0.2.gem"
  action :nothing
 end

g.run_action(:install)

require 'f5-icontrol'

>
> But I get an error... f5-icontrol cannot be included by the recipe,
> because it isn't installed yet... it isn't installed yet because the
> recipe requires... you get the idea.
>
> Is there a chef 0.10.6 way of doing this? the docs say to do it with 
> chef_gem.
>
> thanks!