Chef/Windows/Ruby 1.9.2 incompatibility

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 0.9.8
  • Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
  • Component/s: Chef Client, Documentation
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:

    Windows 7, One-click ruby installer

Description

Out of curiosity I tried to get the Chef client tools running on Windows, using the newly-released Ruby 1.9.2 installer. The current instructions for installing on Windows note you want the win32-open3 gem, but that gem isn't needed or available for Ruby 1.9.x - you can just use the built-in open3 command.

Fixing Chef is pretty easy - just add a conditional version check in lib/chef/mixin/command/windows.rb that requires 'open3' or 'win32/open3' depending on the RUBY_VERSION.

I haven't run all of the chef-client yet, but this appears to be enough to get Knife to work.

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Grace Mollison added a comment -

I also found that installing rdp-ruby-wmi not ruby-wmi was needed

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Grace Mollison added a comment - I also found that installing rdp-ruby-wmi not ruby-wmi was needed
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Daniel DeLeo added a comment -

This should be fixed here: https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/f8ce141bc4584aae708479fe1c442f3a6635ae22

Please reopen the ticket if this doesn't solve the issue.

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Daniel DeLeo added a comment - This should be fixed here: https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/f8ce141bc4584aae708479fe1c442f3a6635ae22 Please reopen the ticket if this doesn't solve the issue.

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  • Assignee:
    Daniel DeLeo
    Reporter:
    Paul Paradise
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