[chef] Re: RE: Re: Ruby Gems

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Simon Hawkins wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >  
> > I think it is this version which causes the error:
> >  
> > windows 1.31.0
> >  
> > I guess I can install wmi-lite on my chef workstation and change the 
> > dependency in the windows cookbook?
> >  
> > Cheers,
> >  
> > Simon
>  
> The wmi-lite gem will be installed automatically when you install chef on 
> windows. Just changing the dependency in the windows cookbook is unlikely 
> to work without further changes to update other code to use wmi-lite and 
> it’s possible that wmi-lite is missing some functionality used by the 
> cookbook. I’ve reached out to my colleagues who are more familiar with the 
> windows cookbook to help answer your question, but for now if you install 
> the `ruby-wmi` gem it should work around the problem for the time being.
>  
>  
> --  
> Daniel DeLeo

I asked a colleague and he said the version of the cookbook you’re using 
doesn’t work with current versions of Chef. Looks like the current version is 
1.36.6. Can you try using the latest?

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/windows/blob/master/metadata.rb
  
--  
Daniel DeLeo