[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Installing Ruby from source

[Jeffrey Jones < >]

To have as few moving parts as possible,  RVM, rbenv etc. is not desired.

Therefore I am looking for a cookbook that literally just installs ruby from source.

Install support packages (gcc, readline, libyaml etc.)
download
compile
make
make install.

Not a huge amount of work but if it already exists I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel.

On 20/05/13 17:49, Morgan Blackthorne wrote:

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Could you elaborate a bit more on the why behind this statement, which might help folks understand your goals a bit better?

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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Jeffrey Jones < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ruby build uses rbenv from what I can see which is a no-no I am afraid.

On 20/05/13 17:45, Prajwal Manjunath wrote:

There's the ruby-build cookbook. I've been using it on Ubuntu and CentOS without issues.

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jeffrey Jones < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hello all.

I have decided that one of chef's greatest strengths; and biggest weaknesses is the community cookbooks (but that is a post for another time).

Is there any "canonical" cookbook that will install ruby (version of our choosing) from source (Including the build-essential'ish packages)? I have found half a dozen ruby cookbooks but none of them offer the source option (I did actually find one but it is 2 years old, barely documented and released under the WTFPL)

I am pretty surprised that I could not find one "opscode" blessed "Install ruby from source" cookbook, seems like a pretty basic building block.

On a slight return to my first line, the community cookbook page really REALLY needs some sorting and filtering features.

Cheers

Jeff