[chef] Re: pre-chef scripts, setting ruby in path etc.

[Sean OMeara < >]

It's highly recommended to use the Omnibus installers.
They ship with their own ruby embedded, along with every thing else above 
libc.

curl -L http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh ;| sh

-s

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:35 AM, S Ahmed 
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 wrote:
> I am currently doing the following before I run my chef solo on a server:
>
>>sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
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>>sudo apt-get install -y wget build-essential ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev irb1.8
>> rdoc1.8 zlib1g-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8 rubygems1.8 libopenssl-ruby
>> libzlib-ruby libssl-dev libpcre3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
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>>sudo apt-get install -y rubygems
>>sudo gem install -y rake bundler
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> and then chef related:
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>>sudo gem install -y ohai chef --no-ri --no-rdoc
>
>
> One thing, ruby doesn't seem to be in my path, and I want to make sure ruby
> 1.9.3 is setup on the server also before running chef.
>
> Any advise on how to make sure ruby 1.9.3 is setup as the default and in the
> path (in an automated, scripted fashion)?
>