[chef] Re: chef_gem installing with wrong rubygems

[Patrick Debois < >]

I seeing a similar behavior - Also to the other post on chef_gem with 
the minitest-handler

At first run, this fails complaining it can't install the chef_gem.
On second run this works correctly.

On 06/02/13 23:08, 

 
 wrote:
> I just upgraded from running 0.10.8 with ruby 1.8.7 installed on the system to
> the omnibus 10.18.2. I have a recipe running chef_gem to install a gem and 
> chef
> can see that the gem is not in the omnibus rubygems, so it installs it. But it
> installs it into the system rubygems. Even if I run chef-client again it sees
> the gem is not in omnibus and then installs it in the system. If I remove
> /usr/bin/gem then chef will install it inside omnibus. I thought chef_gem was
> supposed to ignore /usr/bin/gem. Has anyone seen this, or know how to work
> around it, or know what I may be doing wrong?
>
> I'm running Centos 5.4 as root with
> PATH=/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin
>
> [root]# gem list netaddr
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
>
> [root]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem list netaddr
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
>
> [root]# chef-client -l debug
> ...
> [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] INFO: Processing chef_gem[netaddr] action install
> (cookbook::recipe line 2)
> [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] DEBUG: chef_gem[netaddr] detected omnibus
> installation in /opt/chef/embedded/bin
> [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] DEBUG: chef_gem[netaddr] using gem from running
> ruby environment
> [2013-02-06T21:01:41+00:00] DEBUG: chef_gem[netaddr] no installed version 
> found
> for netaddr (>= 0)
> [2013-02-06T21:01:43+00:00] DEBUG:  found gem netaddr version 1.5.0 for
> platform ruby from http://rubygems.org/
> Successfully installed netaddr-1.5.0
> 1 gem installed
> ...
> [root]# gem list netaddr
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
> netaddr (1.5.0)
> [root]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem list netaddr
>
> *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>
>
> [root]#
>
> Thanks,
> Dan