Fails when installing as unprivileged user

[fnordfish]

A resource like this will try to download the ruby source file into the current working directory. This obviously depends on how chef is used. When running chef-solo in a vagrant environment the current working directory will be /root by default.

ruby_install_ruby 'ruby 1.9.3-p392' do
  user 'vagrant'
  group 'vagrant'
  prefix_path '/home/vagrant/.rubies'
end

A naive workaround would be to call ruby-install with --src-dir=/tmp or to make this options accessible as resource parameter.

[rosstimson]

Thanks for this, I'll look into it over the next few days hopefully. I agree that the option should be made accessible with it defaulting to /tmp.

[fnordfish]

I have to correct myself. ruby-install does not use the current working directory, but $HOME/src as default. This looks like a much better option than /tmp.

[rosstimson]

Do you think its worthwhile changing it to explicitly call --src-dir=$HOME/src and allow it to be changed as a resource param or are you happy with it as is?

[fnordfish]

Simply $HOME does not work inside chefs execute block, right?

I came up with that one: 81c93bd

Which is not optimal, since it makes a dumb assumption on where a user's home directory is. One could use node["etc"]["passwd"][user]["dir"] to find out, but I don't know if this is a reliable chef-feature or not :(

[ichilton]

There is also a Chef cache directory which you could use like this:

cache_path = Chef::Config['file_cache_path']
src_path = "#{cache_path}/ruby-install"