[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: open source chef client error

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

I would actually recommend rbenv or chruby over RVM. RVM is very
invasive, sets a bunch of environment variables that mess with Chef,
and you generally don't need the overhead unless you're a hardcore
Ruby developer working with multiple gemsets.

- Julian

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Nikhil Shah 
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 wrote:
> You can remove ruby all together and then install 1.9; however, if you don't
> want to break anything, I would suggest using RVM (allows you to have
> multiple ruby instances and set the running version). It's nice bc you can
> switch easily and you can disable RVM and use the system default
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nikhil Shah
>
> On Dec 3, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Tim Dunphy 
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>  wrote:
>
>> you also should not be using ruby 1.8 and should remove those packages
>> from your system and replace them with the ruby 1.9 ones.
>
>
> Sounds like good advice. Could you perhaps recommend a safe way to uninstall
> ruby 1.8 without muffing up ruby 1.9?
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Booker Bense 
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>  wrote:
>>
>> I'd strongly encourage you to try an omnibus install if at all possible.
>> It's been a while since I tried it, but even Chef 10 did not work smoothly
>> with ruby 1.8.
>>
>> http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/
>>
>> Your life will be much simpler if chef has it's own version of ruby and
>> dependencies installed.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Tim Dunphy 
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>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> how you have installed chef? may be GEM_PATH/GEM_HOME is messed up. do
>>>> you have multiple ruby installation ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi and thanks for your response. I did a gem install. And I actually
>>> didn't have those variable set. So I tried setting them, and I did make a
>>> little progress.
>>>
>>> 
 :~]
>>>  #echo $GEM_HOME
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8
>>>
>>> 
 :~]
>>>  #echo $GEM_PATH
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems
>>>
>>> But now I am getting a different error, so I may not have the correct
>>> values there:
>>>
>>> 
 :~]
>>>  #knife configure --initial
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs':
>>> Could not find chef (>= 0) amongst [] (Gem::LoadError)
>>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:in
>>> `to_spec'
>>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1231:in `gem'
>>>         from /usr/local/bin/knife:1
>>>
>>> Do you think you could point me in the right direction in setting these
>>> variables? I think that might solve the problem.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Ranjib Dey 
>>> <
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>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> how you have installed chef? may be GEM_PATH/GEM_HOME is messed up. do
>>>> you have multiple ruby installation ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Tim Dunphy 
>>>> <
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>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm attempting to configure chef client on my chef server and running
>>>>> into an error.
>>>>>
>>>>> 
 :~]
>>>>>  #knife configure --initial
>>>>> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs':
>>>>> Could not find chef (>= 0) amongst [bunny-0.8.0, erubis-2.7.0,
>>>>> highline-1.6.15, ipaddress-0.8.0, json-1.7.5, mime-types-1.19,
>>>>> mixlib-authentication-1.3.0, mixlib-cli-1.3.0, mixlib-config-1.1.2,
>>>>> mixlib-log-1.4.1, mixlib-shellout-1.1.0, moneta-0.7.1, net-ssh-2.6.5,
>>>>> net-ssh-gateway-1.1.0, net-ssh-multi-1.1, ohai-6.14.0, polyglot-0.3.3,
>>>>> rest-client-1.6.7, systemu-2.5.2, treetop-1.4.12, uuidtools-2.1.3,
>>>>> yajl-ruby-1.1.0] (Gem::LoadError)
>>>>>         from
>>>>> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:in `to_spec'
>>>>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1231:in `gem'
>>>>>         from /usr/local/bin/knife:18
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running chef 11.8.0 under ubuntu 13.10.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone provide some insight on how to get around this error?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
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