[chef] Re: chef_gem clarification

[Mike < >]

Have you looked at using the build-essential cookbook as well?
If you set it's `node['build_essential']['compiletime'] = true` then
you can have the compilers before the mysql chef_gem is installed in
compile time.

ref: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/build-essential

-M

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:05 PM,  
<
 >
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having an issue where I am trying to do things "right".  I have a 
> server I
> am building but the mysql gem is not installed.  So I am using chef_gem to
> install it.  However, I have other cookbooks that need to run before 
> chef_gem
> (mainly one that installs a compiler).  I have tried to use the 
> include_recipe
> to do this, but that didn't seem to do the trick.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Geoff