#chef

is it wise to use the embedded ruby installed via the omnibus installer for one small ruby script I've written myself?

or should I try to package my own script via omnibus?

hailwood: <%= @database['foo'] || 'asdf' %>

vidluther, I use the embedded one all the time

vidluther: What OS are you on

coderanger: I work off a OS X /Mavericks laptop, but this little script would be deployed to about 40 Ubuntu 12.04 boxen

vidluther: poise-ruby is omnibus'd ruby, all set for you to use :)

and it needs one specific gem (dogapi).. which makes me think since they have a handler already for chef.. i may be hook into that

vidluther: as long as you don't have a pile of external deps, using omnibus ruby to run one little script works fine

juliancdunn: cool, require 'dogapi' that's pretty much all I need

there's a chef handler for Datadog...

dunno about Datadoge though </joking>

coderanger: interesting.

juliancdunn: yea, as I was typing I realized I'm already using their handler, so now I need to see how I do it. I don't want to write an agent check in python/ add another point of failure

sweet, so the embedded ruby already has that gem

vidluther: I would not use Chef's embedded Ruby for ancillary scripts outside of Chef

vidluther: Its an implementation detail at best

yea, it feels wrong, but considering I have to use their official/supported handler to make it easy to integrate with chef anyway, this seems like it may do the trick

coderanger: btw, poise looks like it could possibly replace the need to do silly things like chef_rvm, or chef_rbenv, chruby, and other madness?

Thats the idea, yes

for the times when heroku or some other paas doesn't cut it

gcc on a server should be considered a bug :)

hmm. if that works, i will send you some alcoholic beverage of choice.. and spoken like a man with experience, +1 on gcc == grounds for keyboard removal

vidluther: It isn't perfect, there are issues with linking certain gems, usually because OpenSSL thinks ABI compatability is for chumps

so stuff cross linking between poise-ruby and libs from apt can fail, like the pg gem if you use libpq from apt

just add more -jNs

this is mostly mysql app, but I dunno, I'm new to rails and stuff. On my mac it wanted Qt when I did bundle install

for some testing framework

vidluther: It isn't a speed issue, its that the version of OpenSSL shipped with poise-ruby is isolated from the OS

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add more anyway!

is it possible to query the chef server to say, give me machines with role monitoring-server and then grab the ip in a recipe?

id like to avoid hard coding ips in things if possible

digitalchild: Yep, chef search

search(:node, 'roles:monitoring-server').first['ipaddress']

though you probably want some slightly nicer error checking

coderanger: thanks thats a good start