Ansible playbook to install compass

[yaron idan]

'm receiving an error when trying to install compass using a playbook (on an AWS EC2 instance)

Usually we use the following script to install compass - 

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
echo "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bashrc
rvm install 2.1.2
rvm use 2.1.2 --default
gem install compass

I've tried converting this to script to the following playbook -

---

- hosts: "{{ host_name }}"

  become: yes

  become_user : deploy3

  tasks:

    - name: get gpg

      shell: "gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3"

    - name: install rvm

      shell: "curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable"

    - name: install rvm 2.1.2

      shell: "/home/deploy2/.rvm/bin/rvm install 2.1.2"

    - name: use rvm 2.1.2 by default and install compass

      shell: "bash -lc \"/home/deploy2/.rvm/bin/rvm use 2.1.2 --default && /usr/bin/gem install compass\""

...

deploy is not a sudoer, but when I try to install compass manually it succeeds, and as a playbook I receive the following error - You don't have write permissions into the /var/lib/gems/1.9.1 directory.

I've tried installing compass any other way, including the one suggested here - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ansible-project/compass/ansible-project/Xg9OC0eA3xo/Jd1hqEJb1v4J, but everything I try fails with various errors.

Has anyone encountered this issue and prevailed?

[Brian Coca]

​for /var/lib/gems you probably need root, not deploy3​, remote the become_user line (it defaults to root).

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Brian Coca

[yaron idan]

Brian, if you're ever in Israel, please do let me buy you a beer.

I indeed need root access to this gem path, but I acually intended to use a different executible (owned by deploy3) and forgot to use the correct path.

Thanks!