[chef] Re: Re: rubygems source

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+1 for global defaults for resources!

From: Daniel DeLeo 
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Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:37 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: rubygems source



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<http://rubygems.org>, where we host an internal mirror and our 
servers don't have access to rubygems.org<http://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