[chef] Re: Re: chef_gem clarification

[Geoff Owen < >]

Thanks Mike!  That will do the trick!!

Geoff

On 5/7/13 1:09 PM, "Mike" 
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>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.
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>ref: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/build-essential
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>-M
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>On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:05 PM,  
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>> 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