[chef] Re: Chef and Rails incompatibility because of JSON gem

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

I'm guessing you want to make Chef API calls from your Rails app, correct? If 
so, use Spice (https://github.com/danryan/spice) as an actual dedicated 
client API library.

--Noah

On Nov 13, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Ketan Padegaonkar wrote:

> We're looking to embed chef inside of a rails 3.2.x app, and are running 
> into incompatibility issues with the JSON gem.
> 
> Chef very rigorously requires json (<= 1.6.1, >= 1.4.4) which is 
> incompatible with what most other gems used in the rails eco-system use. 
> Not to mention that this is gem is over a year old. I've had to go back as 
> far as chef 0.8.10 to satisfy this json dependency.
> 
> Is there a known issue that is preventing chef to upgrading to a newer JSON 
> gem, or just use yajl-ruby gem?
> 
> - Ketan
>