ruby_pkg

Table of Contents

• Description
• Requirements
• Usage
  • knife-solo
  • Vagrant
• Recipes
• Attributes
• License and Author

Description

A Chef cookbook with knife-solo and Vagrant setups for building and packaging a specified Ruby version.

Requirements

Should work on Debian and Enterprise Linux based distributions. Other platforms (that ruby_build and fpm support) should be possible to add. Please open an issue or pull request if interested.

Requires ruby_build and fpm-tng community cookbooks.

Usage

The easiest way to build the Ruby package is by using the included knife-solo or Vagrant setup. You can of course use the cookbook also directly by adding it to run_list or by including it in your own cookbooks.

To use knife-solo or Vagrant you need to use the full source repository version. You can download and extract a tarball release or clone the git repository:

    $ git clone https://github.com/reaktor/chef-ruby_pkg.git ruby_pkg
    $ cd ruby_pkg

knife-solo

Requirements

1. Install Ruby (1.9.3 or later) and Bundler

2. Install knife-solo and dependencies:

   $ bundle install --without development:test
   

Building with knife-solo

1. Copy ./nodes/example.json to for example ./nodes/myruby.json and edit it to match your wishes. See Attributes for possible options.

2. Bootstrap the server. Installs Chef and other knife-solo requirements and then builds and packages the specified Ruby version:

   $ bundle exec knife solo bootstrap  nodes/myruby.json
   

   You can also use knife-ec2, knife-digital_ocean, etc. For example:

   $ gem install knife-ec2
   $ knife ec2 server create --node-name=myruby ...
   # note the FQDN/IP for next phase
   

   If the server is already prepared, you can run only the converge phase:

   $ bundle exec knife solo cook  nodes/myruby.json
   

3. Fetch the package from the server. For example:

   $ scp :/tmp/debian-7.0_ruby-1.9.3-p448-1_amd64.deb pkg/
   

Vagrant

Install Vagrant environment

1. Install Vagrant v1.2 or later

2. Install needed Vagrant plugins:

   $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
   $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus
   

3. Add your favorite Vagrant box, for example:

   $ vagrant box add "ubuntu-12.04" "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
   

Building with Vagrant

Spin up the box to build and package a specified Ruby version:

$ VERSION="2.0.0-p247" BOX="ubuntu-12.04" vagrant up

The package will be created to pkg directory.

Environment variables for Vagrant

• $BOX - The Vagrant box name. Defaults to "squeeze-6.0".
• $DEBUG - If set, enable debug logging of the Chef run.
• $VERSION - The Ruby version to package. Passed to ruby_build. Defaults to "1.9.3-p448"
• $ITERATION - The package iteration version number. Passed to fpm. Defaults to 1.
• $MAINTAINER - The (optional) package maintainer. Passed to fpm.

Recipes

• default - Includes other recipes to build and package the specified Ruby version.
• build - Builds the specified Ruby version.
• package - Makes a package from the specified (and formerly built) Ruby version.

Attributes

• node['ruby_pkg']['ruby_version'] - The Ruby version to build. Defaults to "1.9.3-p448".
• node['ruby_pkg']['iteration'] - The iteration/revision number of the package. Defaults to 1.
• node['ruby_pkg']['base_dir'] - The base directory where the Ruby versions will be installed. Defaults to "/usr/local/ruby".
• node['ruby_pkg']['pkg_dir'] - The directory where the package will be built. Defaults to "/tmp".
• node['ruby_pkg']['maintainer'] - The optional maintainer field. Defaults to nil.

License and Author

Author:: Teemu Matilainen <teemu.matilainen@reaktor.fi>

Copyright © 2013, Reaktor Innovations Oy

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).