[chef] Re: chef 0.10.6 and chef_gem

[AJ Christensen < >]

On 6 August 2012 01:36, AJ Christensen 
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 wrote:
> Heavy Water produced this cookbook to add chef_gem to versions < 0.10.12
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> http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/chef_gem
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> alternately, you can use the old school way of doing it (compile time):
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> 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...
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>> I want to do something like this:
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> g = gem_package "f5-icontrol" do
>   source "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/f5-icontrol-10.2.0.2.gem"
>   action :nothing
>  end
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> g.run_action(:install)
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# oh, you need to refresh the gem cache before the require, too :)

Gem.clear_paths

> require 'f5-icontrol'
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>> 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.
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>> Is there a chef 0.10.6 way of doing this? the docs say to do it with 
>> chef_gem.
>>
>> thanks!