[chef] Re: Re: chef 0.10.6 and chef_gem

[Jesse Campbell < >]

thanks! this looks perfect!
i have one other question, but it'll get a new thread.

-jesse

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:37 AM, AJ Christensen 
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> On 6 August 2012 01:36, AJ Christensen 
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>> 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...
>>>
>>> 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 :)
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> Gem.clear_paths
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> Is there a chef 0.10.6 way of doing this? the docs say to do it with 
>>> chef_gem.
>>>
>>> thanks!