[chef] Re: chef_gem clarification

[Jeff Blaine < >]

> 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.

You may not want chef_gem but gem_package

http://docs.opscode.com/resource_gem_package.html

chef_gem installs the gem for use by Chef, not your system-wide Ruby.