Mongo Chef Gem Installer Cookbook

mongo_chef_gem is a library cookbook that provides an LWRP for use
in recipes. It provides a wrapper around chef_gem called
mongo_chef_gem that eases the installation process, collecting the
prerequisites and side-stepping the compilation phase arms race.

Scope

This cookbook is concerned with the installation of the mongo
Rubygem into Chef's gem path. Installation into other Ruby
environments, or installation of related gems such as mongo are
outside the scope of this cookbook.

Requirements

• Chef 11 or higher
• Ruby 1.9 (preferably from the Chef full-stack installer)

Usage

depends 'mongo_chef_gem', '~> 0.1.0'

Then, in a recipe:

mongo_chef_gem 'default' do
  action :install
end

Resources Overview

mongo_chef_gem

The mongo_chef_gem resource the build dependencies and installation
of the mongo rubygem into Chef's Ruby environment

Example

mongo_chef_gem 'default' do
  gem_version '2.1.0'
  action :install
end

Parameters

• gem_version - The version of the mongo Rubygem to install into the Chef environment. Defaults to '2.1.0'

Actions

• :install - Build and install the gem into the Chef environment
• :remove - Delete the gem from the Chef environment

Authors

• Author:: Andrei Skopenko (andrey@skopenko.net)