On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:54:56 PM UTC-6, Alexander Philipp wrote:
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> Are there any good guides out there to using Puppet agents with a
> dedicated, separate ruby install? Our apps are all Ruby based and require
> different versions than Puppet. Installing the agent from a package wi
Hi There,
We take this approach as well with our platform to ensure that puppet
upgrades don't affect any applications that may be using the OS version of
Ruby.
Disclaimer:
I don't actually love our approach to packaging Ruby and am aware of its
flaws, however it has proved to be OK for the tim
I've done this using gems. I build Ruby from source (I use --prefix but
not sure if it's required) and then use the new gem executable to install
Puppet as gem. Works great for me if you can use gems
BTW, I did this because we use CentOS 5 and I wanted to use Ruby 1.9.x +
Puppet 3.x and had t
