[chef] Re: using chef and gem to install rails

["Eric G. Wolfe" < >]

The chef_gem resource is for installing Ruby gems needed to extend Chef on a given node.  Given you have a full-chef (Omnibus) installation, and want to have Chef pull data from LDAP, you could `chef_gem "net-ldap"` to extend your Chef recipe with that particular gem.

The gem_package resource on the other hand is for managing a system Ruby, or Ruby application stack, external to Chef.  Given you have a full-chef (Omnibus) installation, and want to manage an external Rails application stack, you could use `gem_package "rails"`.  You could also try something like ruby_application (http://ckbk.it/ruby_application) cookbook to deploy by representing your implementation as data structures and function calls.

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On 08/28/2013 09:00 PM, David Montgomery wrote:

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I want install rails.

I see chef_gem and gem_package

Which do I use?  And how do I do it?

Thanks