[chef] Re: RE: library gem dependencies

[Sachin Sagar Rai < >]

Yup, mine too is working the chef_gem way:

%w(libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev).each do |pkg|

  r = package pkg do

    action :nothing

  end

  r.run_action(:install)

end

chef_gem "aws-sdk"

require 'aws'

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On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Philippe Bérard wrote:

I don't know if I do it correctly, but here's my answer.

Just do it that way :

chef_gem 'treetop'

require 'treetop'

It will be installed at the right time before being loaded by the recipe.

Regards,

-- Philippe Bérard

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De : Sam Darwin [ ">mailto: ]

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Objet : [chef] library gem dependencies

Let's say a cookbook library requires a gem called treetop (it could be any

gem actually), and so it has this line:

require 'treetop'

I want to get that installed as a pre-requisite, and so I add this code into

the default recipe:

r = chef_gem "treetop" do

action :nothing

end

r.run_action(:install)

But apparently it won't get called soon enough. The library has errors

about

treetop missing.

As another attempt, I create a different cookbook called pre-requisites. I

add the code "r = chef_gem "treetop" do" into the pre-requisites cookbook,

and

have that as a cookbook dependency. Nope. This also doesn't get called

soon

enough. treetop is missing. Installing the treetop gem by hand will

fix

it.

The issue seems to be with a library and not with a recipe file, that is the

twist.