[chef] Re: Re: Installing Ruby from source

[Mike < >]

"canonical".

No such thing, in any software, packaging, etc.

There's only "this seems to work for me, I'm going to test it out, and
if it works, awesome."

This is the case for pretty much any package, anywhere.

Since many community cookbooks are named after a particular
product/package, there may be an assumption that the "redis" cookbook
is the canonical one, but there's also "rediso", "redis2",
"redis-package" and others not on the site.

So there's no canonical anything, only things that you can grok and work well.

My 2 cents,
-M

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sascha Bates 
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 wrote:
> 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