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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Jamie Winsor wrote:

If you like the the ActiveRecord/ActiveResource libraries alternative to Spice is Ridley - https://github.com/reset/ridley

Ridley also has support for executing common Knife like operations within another Ruby app like bootstrapping nodes in parallel and asking them to run Chef client.

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Jamie Winsor

@resetexistence

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On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:

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?

To answer the original question, there's no reason why we can't bump the dependency version on JSON -- patches accepted.

The reason we have a strict dependency on the JSON gem version is that in the past, patch releases of the gem have broken Chef or Ohai. Setting a strict dependency has successfully prevented this from happening.

 

- Ketan

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Daniel DeLeo