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Our custom Chef recipe stopped working on EY cloud
We have some custom Chef recipes that we have been running on EY Cloud for some time. The code for these custom recipes was using the chef-deploy gem, which was apparently always available in the environment in which the recipe ran.
However, when we ran our recipe last week, it blew up trying to require the gem. We fixed this by removing the require and folding some of the code from the gem into our recipe.
There is a corresponding issue in the EY community forums:
https://community.engineyard.com/discussions/problems/1193-error-in-deploying-the-application
Help
Why is upgrading to Ruby 1.8.7 so painful?
More specifically, a Pivot was wondering why there seem to be so many ways to install Ruby and Rubygems on a Mac. There are a lot of different places where gems end up being installed depending on which version of Ruby you have installed, and the specifics of how you installed it. The conversation turned into one about RVM and Yehuda Katz' Bundler, two technologies that appear destined to make it much easier to easily combine a version of Ruby with a set of gems under a particular project.
What is that technology that allows for more complex condition hashes in ActiveRecord?
This must be ActiveRecord::Extensions, which allows for an expanded syntax in the conditions hash of AR finders. A debate was had as to whether hashes and arrays could possibly comprise a reasonable DSL for complex query logic, but surprisingly, the final word on the subject was not reached during standup.
We are using
curlto talk to a Mongrel/Rack server that is running some specs. That server is emitting dots (just as any Rspec process would), but we cannot get those dots to show up in real-time on the client. The only way we've been able to force a flush is with a newline character, but that gives us an ugly vertical column of dots. Any suggested hacks for this?
The Bay Area Chef Meetup Group is meeting on 10/14 in Mountain View. If you're into Chef (and here at Pivotal we use it extensively), you might want to check it out.