Ruby Cookbook

Installs Ruby using the Brightbox Ruby PPA.

Requirements

Requires Chef 0.10.10+ and Ohai 0.6.10+ for platform_family attribute use.

Platforms

Tested on the following platforms:

• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

Cookbooks

Opscode cookbooks:

• apt
• build-essential

Attributes

Ruby

• node['ruby']['version'] - Can be ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0 or ruby2.1, Defaults to ruby2.1. ruby1.9.1 is Ruby 1.9.3.
• node['ruby']['install_dev_package'] - whether to also install the Ruby dev package. Defaults to true.
• node['ruby']['packages'] - additional packages to install. Defaults to %w{ curl git libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libmysqlclient-dev nodejs }
• node['ruby']['gems'] - Ruby gems to install. Defaults to %w{ bundler }.

Rails

• node['ruby']['user'] - defaults to vagrant.
• node['ruby']['group'] - defaults to www-data.
• node['ruby']['rails_env'] - Rails environment. Defaults to development.
• node['ruby']['db'] - database settings. Defaults to

{ 'username' => 'vagrant', 'password' => SecureRandom.hex(10), 'host' => 'localhost' }

Recipes

default

Installs Ruby from the Brightbox Ruby PPA. Also installs the bundler gem, the curl and git packages, the libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev libraries required by the nokogiri gem, the libmysqlclient-dev library required by the myslq2 gem, and nodejs as Javascript runtime.

empty

Nothing is installed. Use this recipe to include the above attributes only.

License & Authors

• Author: Martin Fenner (mfenner@plos.org)

Copyright: 2014, Public Library of Science

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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