[chef] Re: rbenv setup for system wide

[AJ Christensen < >]

Create a cookbook "myorg_system_wide_ruby" and add the rbenv 'related
code' you mentioned in there.

depends goes into metadata.rb, the rest in a recipe

Cheers,

AJ

On 19 February 2013 10:11, S Ahmed 
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 wrote:
> Thanks to your suggestions, I am going to use rbenv to manage my servers
> system wide ruby and gems setup.
>
> From the readme it seems to alude to using rbenv as dependancy to a
> cookbook, but I want to setup a system wide (default) ruby and rubygems.
>
> Does this mean I have to put this in my role_name.rb file?  (I'm using
> chef-solo).
>
> My current base.rb is:
>
> name 'base'
> description 'base role that all nodes will have'
> run_list "recipe[build-essential]", "recipe[ohai]", "recipe[runit]",
> "recipe[yum]", "recipe[openssl]", "recipe[git]", "recipe[apt]",
> "recipe[java]"
>
> So do I put rbenv related code in here like:
>
>     depends 'rbenv'
>
>     include_recipe "rbenv::default"
>     include_recipe "rbenv::ruby_build"
>
>     rbenv_ruby "1.9.3-p194"
>
>     rbenv_gem "bundler" do
>       ruby_version "1.9.3-p194"
>     end
>
>
> How can I create a list of gems I want pre-installed for default ruby to be
> able to access?