Install ruby-dev package in default recipe to provide mkmf in building n...

[flaccid]

...ative extensions.

This will prevent the ruby build failing with:

08:36:25: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in require' 08:36:25: : cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:inrequire'
from extconf.rb:17:in `

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[anujbiyani]

Interesting that you ran into this error; I just provisioned a new server a week ago using this recipe and had no issues. What OS are you using?

[flaccid]

This was on Ubuntu 12.04.

[anujbiyani]

Not able to reproduce this; I spun up a 12.04 instance yesterday and ran only the chef_ruby::default recipe which ran to completion without error.

What else can you tell me about the circumstances that led to the error? Might any other cookbooks be interfering?

[flaccid]

Can you please check if a ruby*-dev package is already installed on that instance? chef_ruby was the only recipe I ran and this was with official Ubuntu AMI.

[anujbiyani]

Trying it again using ami-3fec7956 (from http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release-20130124/)

Will check for a ruby*-dev package after it's done. I used a t1.micro this time so it might take a bit.

[anujbiyani]

Chef-client completed successfully, and I have no ruby*-dev packages installed:

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep ruby
$ # no output from previous command

What's the exact AMI you used?

[flaccid]

I was using ubuntu/images/ebs/ubuntu-precise-12.04-amd64-server-20130411.1 (ami-04ea7a3e) in ap-southeast-2.

[anujbiyani]

I can't get any ap-southeast-2 instances to work for some reason so I'm just going to merge this and move on with life =) .

[anujbiyani]

Thanks for the fix!

[flaccid]

Thanks for just doing that. It is strange that its not repeatable in some environments but I did hit it for sure in that one, cheers.