On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Bill Weiss <bwe...@backstopsolutions.com> wrote:

> In a similar situation (ruby-1.8.x and REE installed on a server), I found 
> that mangling the PATH to point at the appropriate ruby did it.  That only 
> works if your entire puppet config (including puppet itself?) works with that 
> ruby, of course.
>
> Otherwise, I think the exec is it.  Unless someone (one of us?) patches the 
> gem provider to take a PATH?  I don't know if that's useful for anything 
> other than the sad case of too many rubys (rubies?) being installed at once, 
> or if this is a common problem.

The gem package provider doesn't specify a given PATH for the gem command.

If you construct your PATH for the puppet process such that the
desired gem is found first, that will work, but doesn't solve the
problem some people have with wanting to use several different gem
executables within the same puppet run.

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