Mongo Chef Gem Installer Cookbook

Description

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
  mongo_version '2.1.2'
  bson_ext_version '1.12.4'
  action :install
end

Parameters

• mongo_version - The version of the mongo Rubygem to install into the Chef environment. Defaults to last version.
• bson_ext_version - The version of the bson_ext Rubygem to install into the Chef environment. Defaults to last version.

Actions

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

Authors

• Author:: Andrei Skopenko ([email protected])