Anyone successfully use mcollective shell plugin with RHEL 5 & 6?

[Kenton Brede]

The title pretty much says it all.  I mostly manage RHEL 5 & 6 boxes that come with ruby 1.8.7.  The mcollective shell plugin requires ruby 1.9.

SCL might work for the RHEL 6 systems but not 5.  Building everything from source would work but certainly not ideal.  I took a stab at managing ruby with rbenv yesterday and didn't manage to get the shell plugin to work.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks,

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Kent Brede

[Ellison Marks]

I'm in a similar situation. I haven't tried it yet, but it might work with the new AIO packages, since they vendor a newer ruby version, 2.1.something, IIRC.

[Christopher Wood]

I needed slightly different behaviour from some of the puppetca plugin actions and opted to rewrite those portions. In your situation I would probably do the same thing given the irritation value of managing multiple rubies.

I found the initial learning curve for mcollective plugins steep in comparison to things like SOAP and REST, but it flattened very quickly thereafter. (Usual disclaimer: I am not a programmer. YMMV.)

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[Other Howard Stern]

I'm in the same situation.  Is there a shell plugin that works with ruby 1.8.7?