Puppet not upgrading to newer version of Ruby

[Benjamin Lei]

I have upgraded my default Ruby (1.8.6) to a newer one (1.8.7). But whenever I run Puppet, it seems to somehow constantly run under Ruby 1.8.6. How do I fix this?

[Peter Bukowinski]

On Jul 6, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Benjamin Lei wrote:

I have upgraded my default Ruby (1.8.6) to a newer one (1.8.7). But whenever I run Puppet, it seems to somehow constantly run under Ruby 1.8.6. How do I fix this?

What is the output of 'which ruby' and 'which puppet'?

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Peter Bukowinski

[Benjamin Lei]

By me:

/usr/local/bin/ruby

/usr/bin/puppet

By puppet:

/usr/bin/ruby

/usr/bin/puppet

Huh that's weird :/ How do I make it so that ruby installs under /usr/bin then?

Here's what I currently do:

exec { "unload-ruby":
command => "wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p370.tar.gz >> /tmp/ruby.log && tar -zxf ruby-1.8.7-p370.tar.gz >> /tmp/ruby.log",
cwd => "/tmp",
path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
#require => Package["ruby"],
onlyif => "ruby -v | grep 1.8.6",
}

exec { "config-ruby":
command => "/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p370/configure --enable-pthread >> /tmp/ruby.log",
cwd => "/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p370",
path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
require => Exec["unload-ruby"],
onlyif => "ruby -v | grep 1.8.6",
}

exec { "make-ruby":
command => "make >> /tmp/ruby.log && make install >> /tmp/ruby.log",
cwd => "/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p370",
path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
require => Exec["config-ruby"],
onlyif => "ruby -v | grep 1.8.6",
}

I'm guessing I need some option in one of these?

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[Felix Frank]

Yes, usually --prefix.

But if you *must* install ruby from source, you probably want to make
sure you're not overwriting files owned by the original ruby packages.
Installing to /usr/local is usually the cleaner approach.

You may want to make puppet use the correct search path instead.

HTH,
Felix

[Benjamin Lei]

I've tried --prefix but it didn't update (and at that point, it was overwriting it). The original Ruby install was is /usr/bin.