[chef] Re: Installing Ruby from source

[Sascha Bates < >]

Are you looking for this for workstation development or server provisioning?  

If the latter, I always make a package for my OS package manager and then place it in an internal repo.  Generally that's Red Hat and I use Ian Meyer's spec to compile it on a dev server: https://github.com/imeyer/ruby-1.9.3-rpm. If Ubuntu, they actually have a Ruby1.9 package set.

If you are looking for workstation provisioning for OSX, the topic is complex because OSX already ships with a system Ruby, which is why everyone is suggesting a Ruby manager.  If you don't want one, you can look at Seth Chisamore's omnibus-chef-utensils which will build an omnibus version of a ruby-chef-development toolchain: https://github.com/schisamo/omnibus-chef-utensils

Sascha


Jeffrey Jones 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