[chef] Re: rubygems source

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Moser, Kevin wrote:

All:

A little discussion point here. We run into an issue quite frequently with cookbooks from the community that assume access to rubygems.org, where we host an internal mirror and our servers don't have access to rubygems.org.

We tend to create wrapper cookbooks and rewind a bunch of resources or add new recipes to the community cookbook just to let us specify new sources. Wanted to have some discussion around a more chef wide style override. Created a ticket for this and would be interested to have folks have some conversation on it and see what might be a good approach for everyone.

https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4539

Thanks!!

Kevin

For the immediate term we've been handling stuff like this via Chef::Config options, so I think this could be okay for a future 11.x release. In the longer term (Chef 12ish, or maybe a "big" feature release of 11.x) we'd like to implement a means to configure global defaults for resource attributes.

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Daniel DeLeo